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Re:Val Town is winding down by dkmar on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:31PM (#50447806)
Small web scripts that can email you and you can cron schedule them. They used to let you do this for free so I used it for web monitoring (like if a site restocks the product I want).
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Re:Val Town is winding down by chanux on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:57PM (#50448927)
Maybe we should donate to cron-job.org
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Re:Val Town is winding down by yydenis on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:58AM (#50451135)
This is pretty much what I use my own thing for (https://tissue.systems, I'm the founder). JS function on a URL, sqlite and cron built in, so "check a page every hour and ping me" is one small file. No browser editor like Val Town had, it's deploy from a CLI. Happy to help if anyone wants to port a val over.
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