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Nightjar
Cron with eyes for your Mac
Nightjar runs scheduled scripts on your Mac, records every run, and alerts you when one fails, times out, or never starts. Commands and logs stay local. No account. 14-day trial, then $19 once.
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Hey Product Hunt — I’m Piyush, the maker of Nightjar. I built it after discovering that a scheduled backup on my Mac had been failing quietly for long enough to make the backup useless. The cron expression was fine; what I lacked was a reliable answer to “did it actually run?” Nightjar runs recurring commands locally, keeps the output, exit code, duration, and status of every run, and alerts you when one fails, times out, or never starts. Commands, paths, environment variables, and run history stay on the Mac. Optional email monitoring sends only the operational metadata needed to detect missed runs — never commands, output, paths, or environment variables. It has a 14-day full trial and costs $19 once — no account and no subscription. I’ll be here throughout the launch. If you run scripts on a Mac, what is the one recurring job you trust the least today?
About Nightjar on Product Hunt
“Cron with eyes for your Mac”
Nightjar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #39 on the daily leaderboard. Nightjar runs scheduled scripts on your Mac, records every run, and alerts you when one fails, times out, or never starts. Commands and logs stay local. No account. 14-day trial, then $19 once.
On the analytics side, Nightjar competes within Mac, Productivity and Development — topics that collectively have 767.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Nightjar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Nightjar?
Nightjar was hunted by Piyush Pradhan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Nightjar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.