Catching the failures
cron never reports
Tymo monitors cron jobs and scheduled tasks by waiting for an HTTP ping. It exists to close the gap between “the job ran” and “the job succeeded.”
Built from a backup that silently failed
Tymo exists because of a database backup that stopped working for six weeks without any alert. The job ran every night. The cron log showed success. There was no indication anything was wrong — until someone tried to restore from a backup that didn't exist. The job had been exiting 0 while writing nothing useful to disk.
Existing tools either required installing an agent, adding an SDK, or restructuring the job around their API. Tymo is the simpler answer: add one curl to the end of your job and get alerted the moment it stops completing. If the job succeeds, the ping arrives. If it doesn't, the silence is the alert.
Tymo is an indie product in active development — built by a solo developer, not a team with a marketing budget. There is no funding announcement, no artificially impressive customer count, and no sales process. Just a focused tool that solves one problem, priced honestly, with a free tier that does real work.
How we build
Four commitments that shape every decision — from the ping endpoint to the pricing page.
Simple by default
Integration is one curl command. No agents to install, no SDKs to configure, no YAML files to write. If your job can make an HTTP request, it works with Tymo.
Honest pricing
The free Hobby tier does real work — no artificial limits designed to force an upgrade. Pro adds more monitors, shorter check intervals, and IP allowlisting. The pricing page shows everything; nothing is hidden until checkout.
Built in public
Tymo is actively developed. New features ship regularly. When something is rough it will be fixed, not quietly deprioritised. Feedback goes directly to the person building it, and the roadmap is not a secret.
Privacy-respecting
No analytics SDKs, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts on the dashboard. The only data Tymo holds is what you create: monitors, ping timestamps, and alert history.
Ready to stop missing failures?
Add one line to your job. Get alerted the moment it stops completing. Free to start — no credit card required.