Creator here!<p>As developers, every now and then we come up with cool ideas of things to automate. I remember a few years back when I first started learning how to code and was looking for an apartment in San Francisco, I felt like the world’s cleverest hacker when I set up a script to email every new listing on CraigsList in the neighborhoods I was interested in living in. (This had some disastrous consequences, but that’s a story for another time.)<p>My only problem at the time was that I would have to manually run this script myself every day.
Now, as a more experienced developer, I know enough to know that one approach to this problem is to set up a cron job, or something similar. Recently I found myself wanting to do this again… but every time I want to do it, it takes some effort to remind myself how it all works. At first I thought, maybe I’m just an idiot. But after talking to a few friends, we realized that a bunch of us have the exact same issue. (Though maybe we're all idiots, haha)<p>So we figured, why not build a little tool that makes this process extremely simple? This is what led to the creation of Taro.<p>We'd love to hear the community's thoughts on integrations that would be particularly useful (e.g. alerting with SMS, lightweight storage, etc) as we continue to hack on this!