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macOS runs your scripts, backups, and AI agents on invisible launchd schedules. Clocksmith makes them visible: live status for every job, run history (time, duration, exit code) pulled from the system log, and red-flagged error lines when something fails. One click hands a failing job's log to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini with the question pre-filled. Create, run, pause, or reschedule jobs — with automatic backups. Native, notarized by Apple, no telemetry. Free 7-day full trial, then $4.99 once.
Hi PH! 👋
I built Clocksmith because my Mac quietly runs a bunch of daily jobs
(including reports my AI tools set up for me), and the only way to know if
they ran — or silently failed — was digging through Terminal.
Two tricks I'm most proud of:
1. It reconstructs **run history from the macOS unified log** — "ran 08:30
→ 08:33, exit 0, 25 min ago" for every job, without touching any of
them. launchd has no API for this; no other launchd GUI shows it.
2. When a job fails, error lines go red under a plain-language banner, and
**one click opens ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini with the diagnosis question
pre-filled** (your own account — the app has no API keys and sends
nothing anywhere).
Safety was the #1 design rule: every edit is backup → write → verify →
auto-restore on failure, and anything it can't edit safely is shown
read-only instead.
Free 7-day full-featured trial, then $4.99 one-time, macOS 14+. Would love
your feedback on what to build next (menu bar mode? notifications on
failure?).
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About Clocksmith on Product Hunt
“Know your Mac's scheduled jobs ”
Clocksmith was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #120 on the daily leaderboard. macOS runs your scripts, backups, and AI agents on invisible launchd schedules. Clocksmith makes them visible: live status for every job, run history (time, duration, exit code) pulled from the system log, and red-flagged error lines when something fails. One click hands a failing job's log to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini with the question pre-filled. Create, run, pause, or reschedule jobs — with automatic backups. Native, notarized by Apple, no telemetry. Free 7-day full trial, then $4.99 once.
Clocksmith was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (658.2k followers), Developer Tools (517.5k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 267.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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