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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.
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?
Love that the logs and commands stay local instead of getting piped through some cloud service. The run history with timeout alerts is exactly what I've been cobbling together with launchd and hope for the best.
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.
Nightjar was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (657.7k followers) and Development (6.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 163.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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