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Products that do what Jobman – nohup with retries, timeouts, and dependencies does
I've long used nohup for background processes that I want to run independently of the terminal. These types of jobs are usually long-running, sometimes launched over an SSH connection, and often have dependencies on other jobs. I built Jobman to combine the simplicity of nohup with features I previously wrote one-off shell scripts for, including: - retries - timeouts - dependencies between jobs - email or webhook notifications on completion or failure - separate stdout and stderr logging with a combined observed-order view Jobman does this with a small per-job supervisor process; there's no…
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Hey HN, I'm the maintainer of node-cron (5M+ downloads/month), and I recently built Sidequest.js, a background job runner for Node.js inspired by Oban (Elixir) and Sidekiq (Rails). It solves some common problems I saw with libraries like node-cron: - Jobs don’t block your API: they run in isolated worker threads - No Redis or vendor lock-in: use Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, or MongoDB - Supports retries, uniqueness, concurrency, snoozing, prioritization - Comes with a CLI and a simple dashboard - Works great in monoliths and doesn’t require extra infra Quick start (no signup needed):…
2025 · docs.sidequestjs.com
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2020 · github.com
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Hi HN! I'm Nico and lately I've been struggling looking for jobs. I've gotten specially frustrated with having to spend hours reading through listings just to find good matches. So I built something to scratch my own itch: Command Jobs, a terminal-based job finder and application tracker designed specifically for me, and maybe also software engineers The app scrapes web listings, saves them, processes them with GPT[1], then based on your resume and job preferences, it gives you the best matches This is my first open source project, and also my first public project using LLMs I'm really…
2024 · github.com
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(not sure why my previous post didn't appear on Show HN even though I included it in the title, mods please remove if not allowed) Ever applied for a job and never heard back? Many companies just go silent instead of sending rejection emails, leaving you guessing whether to keep waiting or move on. I faced this frustration during my own internship search, especially when there was no real point of contact (automated replies don't count, lol). So, I built didtheyghost.me, a simple open-source tool that crowdsources job application responses. This isn't a job scraper or another job board. It's…
2025 · didtheyghost.me
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In my last project, I was struggling to create and monitor cron jobs. So, instead of creating hundreds of standalone scrips and executing them with cron, I decided to turn those scripts into multiple endpoints. Next, I created a single service that I could schedule HTTP requests to those endpoints and monitor its execution. No more scripts, now everything is endpoints that I can run manually at any time I turned this scheduler service into a Micro-SaaS so you don't have to build it yourself: beew.io I know you can Schedule HTTP requests with Zapier but come on... I will not pay 50 bucks for…
2021
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I kept seeing every npm/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv supply chain post end with the same advice (set a minimum release age, turn off install scripts), and while I know cooldowns are "controversial", they do work. But even if you convince people that they should set cooldowns, it seems many don't end up following through, not sure why, maybe because it means hand-editing five config files in five formats with five different time units, or perhaps the "it won't happen to me" syndrome (or "I'll do it later, it seems complicated" where it's actually very simple). So I created a tool that…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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2022 · github.com
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2018 · jobder.net
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With coding agents now allowing for lots of small projects and products running in tandem, and as they tend to grow in operational complexity, I've been finding myself wanting a way to manage a bunch of running npm/bun servers as well as one-off operational jobs I need to run. I also want to keep my terminal focused on git and claude, and have my servers somewhere else. Nemo solves that problem: I can now more efficiently manage and view local servers and jobs, look at their logs and see their CPU/RAM metrics as well. My terminal windows are now much more tidy and focused. It's not…
May 2026 · github.com
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It scrapes Ruby/Ruby on Rails jobs from six sites: Gorails, Weworkremotely, Ruby on Remote, Ruby on Rails jobs, Rails Hotwire Jobs, WeAreHiring, and displays them right in your terminal! The scraper lives on: https://github.com/binarygit/job_scraper Please comment other sites that you use to look up Ruby/ROR jobs!
2023 · github.com
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As a software engineer, my reflex has always been to script everything I can. Scripting is easy, but everything around it is tricky: scripts have to run somewhere, they need access to credentials, they need to be monitored. None of it is simple. No-code automation platforms such as Zapier or IFTTT are too restrictive for technical tasks; CI/CD platforms make it easy to script tasks related to a repository, but are limited when trying to do anything else. I wanted the low level control you have when writing scripts while retaining the comfort of a platform managing execution for me. So I…
2022 · exograd.com
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