On: Tell HN: Check out my app, RunMeLater, Web Service for CRON Jobs/Scheduled Tasks

[vorador]

How does it work, and what is the point of such a webservice (your page gives no information concerning both) ?

[adatta02 → vorador]

example use case I'd imagine would be something like "I want to send burst emails every 20 minutes from my shared host which doesn't let me run cron jobs. So I'll write a PHP script to send the emails and runmelater to ping the script every 20 minutes"

[tptacek → vorador]

It's a tool for doing arbitrary URL-based things on an external scheduler.

[barmstrong → vorador]

This was the exact question I had when looking at it (Why do it on your site instead of my own?) Would be great to put this right on the home page in a few bullets.

[mattvanhorn → vorador]

I'd use this with the Tumblr API which, last time I looked, didn't let you schedule a post in the future.