Jobber
Smarter cron replacement with retries and notifications
Jobber is an open-source replacement for cron written in Go, adding job execution history, automatic retries, and error notifications. It is self-hosted to run scheduled tasks more reliably.
Key features
- Cron with retries
- Job execution history
- Error notifications
- Lightweight
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Active community (1.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
Jobber replaces
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