Cron for the AI age. Schedule website watches, agent jobs, literally anything that run on real compute. Agents are here to change everything, including Cron jobs. We have given each agent their own powerful computer to use, run code, do network calls etc. You can schedule a job to get the PR from GitHub and review code. Watch a pricing page for any change and mail you. Download a youtube video and cut it into shorts and mail the artifacts. Anything.
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I was taken aback when an AI agent edited a video for me in one shot. I looked at it while it installed ffmpeg, used yt-dlp and corrected its own mistakes. Fast forward, I was on a bus and I needed something to be done by an AI agent but I didn't have my laptop with me - I wished I could I fire up a browser tab and an agent would be there to do the task. Hence, cronbox was born - a way to launch AI agents in the cloud and schedule them for tasks.
If you have been following news, Claude code also released scheduling in the cloud. I checked it out and its pretty restrictive. It fails to even take the screenshot of your website. Couldn't display the generated SVG. Can't do outbound network calls and so on. Also, we email you with the results, they don't.
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We solve all those issues for you. Give it a spin or check out the shared job https://cronbox.sh/jobs/pelican-...
Nice concept sounds interesting. I did run into a couple issues though: the sign-in page seems to be broken, and the “Start for $20” button in the navbar isn’t working either.
It might also help to include a quick example or demo so people can better understand how it works before committing.
Probably worth fixing those things before pushing subscriptions. Hope that’s helpful, Manish Kumar.
What's the minimum scheduling interval you support and is there built in retry logic for failed jobs? Great idea bringing cron jobs to AI agents, congrats on shipping!
i spend too much time checking updates manually, this kind of system would handle that silently in the background.
manish kumar