About Cronpilot
Cronpilot is a scheduler as a service: you describe when something should happen, and Cronpilot fires HTTP requests to your systems on that schedule. It is the active counterpart to passive check-in tools. Instead of waiting for your jobs to report in, Cronpilot starts them.
The gap it fills is simple. Cron on a server comes with hidden cost: reboots, silent misses, weak history, no built-in alerts. Cloud schedulers work but scatter across consoles and IAM. Orchestrators are overkill for "hit this URL every fifteen minutes." Passive monitors tell you after the fact that something did not run; they cannot make it run. Cronpilot's job is the missing middle: reliably fire HTTP on a schedule, show what happened, and alert when something breaks.
How it should feel
Sign up, paste a URL, type every weekday at 9am or a cron expression, save. From then on Cronpilot fires the request, keeps a clear history, and notifies you when criteria fail. The dashboard should stay calm: green when things are fine, red when something needs attention, one click to see what happened.
Principles
- Do one thing well. Scheduled HTTP and honest history, not a workflow orchestrator, general queue, or status-page product.
- Simplicity is a feature. Few moving parts, boring technology, predictable operations.
- Honesty about reliability. Best-effort timing, no fairy-tale SLA copy. Our free soft launch has no paid uptime promise.
- Transparent pricing. Flat tiers when billing ships, with no surprise usage bills.
- Developer-first. Keyboard-friendly UI, scriptable API, docs written by someone who has been frustrated by other tools.
Who builds it
Cronpilot is built and operated by Jeff Berube under Rebel Signal, a one-person consulting and game company. There is no separate product team behind a curtain. Support, ops, and product decisions are the same inbox. The project will likely stay that way: small on purpose, so the surface stays focused.
Around the product sits a small ecosystem of open tools: recronslator (cron / English library) and cronslate.com (a free translator). Cronpilot itself is a commercial SaaS and is not open source today.
Questions: hello@cronpilot.io.