Automation is your leverage as an indie hacker, but silent failures cost revenue. We monitor your cron jobs to ensure reliability and alert you if a task fails.
Why reliability is your biggest asset
When you are a small team or running solo, you don’t have a dedicated support department to handle angry tickets. Your reputation relies entirely on your product working exactly as promised.
If you are sending newsletters at scheduled times and the script silently crashes, your audience disengages. If you are running healthchecks and the monitor freezes, you are flying blind.
We built olic.io because we know that anxiety. Monitoring your cron jobs gives you the peace of mind that your background tasks—the heartbeat of your business—are actually beating. It allows you to fix a broken script before it turns into a customer churn event.
Keeping your projects organized
Most indie hackers we know aren’t just running one thing. You likely have your main SaaS, a couple of side projects, and maybe some freelance work.
Trying to track health across all those different contexts can get messy. We use Projects to solve this. You can group your monitors by service or client, keeping the database backups for “Project A” completely separate from the billing scripts for “Project B.”
If you decide to team up with a friend or hire a contractor later, our Collaboration features let you invite them only to the project they need to see.
Get alerts without the noise
You shouldn’t have to constantly refresh a dashboard to know if your business is running. You need to know immediately when something breaks, and you need that alert in the tools you use every day.
We support real time notifications that integrate directly into your workflow. Whether you practically live in Discord or keep your dev chatter in Slack, we route the alerts there. The goal is to keep you informed without forcing you to change how you work.
Simple setup for builders
We know you want to spend your time building features, not wrestling with complex observability tools.
That is why we kept our configuration incredibly simple. It uses a “heartbeat” concept: your code sends a simple HTTP request to us when it finishes a job.
- No heavy SDKs: It works with standard HTTP requests.
- Universal: The setup is the same whether you use Javascript / Node JS or Python.
It takes just a few minutes to implement, so you can get back to shipping.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will this slow down my code? Not at all. The monitor is just a simple asynchronous HTTP request (a “ping”) sent at the end of your task. It adds virtually no overhead to your application.
What happens if my server crashes completely? This is why external monitoring is essential. If your server goes down and your script never runs, we won’t receive the expected ping. We will notify you immediately that the job is “Missing” so you can investigate the outage.
Can I monitor tasks on different servers? Yes. Since we monitor via a URL, we don’t care where your code is hosted. You can track a script on a local server, a cloud function, and a VPS all in the same dashboard.