Can I vibecode Cronitor?
price $10/moyou'd save $120/yrbuild time one sittingcategory cron-monitoringreplaced by 3 people
YES
MOATinfrastructure scaleintegrations
Heartbeat endpoint plus dead-man's-switch alerts. A hundred lines of code wearing a SaaS badge.
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promote your product in the vibecoded listThe Build Prompt
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Build me a cron-job monitor like Cronitor / Healthchecks. Requirements:
- Each monitored job gets a unique ping URL (/ping/:uuid). The job's crontab
line just appends `&& curl -fsS <url>` · document this.
- Define jobs in SQLite via a basic-auth /admin page: name, expected period
(e.g. every 60 min) and grace time. Store every ping with timestamp.
- A scheduler loop checks each job: if now > last_ping + period + grace, the job
is LATE → send one alert webhook (Discord/Slack/Telegram, URL in .env) with
the job name and how late it is. Alert again on recovery. No alert spam ·
one per state change.
- /admin dashboard: each job as a row with green/amber/red status dot, last ping
time ("7 min ago"), and a 24h ping histogram as inline SVG.
- Support /ping/:uuid/fail for explicit failure reports with an optional body
shown in the alert.
- Python or Node, single process, systemd unit included.In-List Ad$79/30 days
promote your product in the vibecoded listWhat you lose
- ✕Hosted infrastructure and managed operations from Cronitor
- ✕The original service's mature integrations and ecosystem
Prior art / alternatives
Why it still works
🏗️ infrastructure scale · 🔌 integrations
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