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    Capto

    A dead-man's switch for cron jobs, workers and containers that provides alerts and breadcrumbs for context when a job stops.

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    At a Glance

    1Tool Listed
    1Product
    6Capabilities
    Discussions
    BrazilHeadquarters
    2026Est.
    1Employee
    Focus Areas
    Monitoring Tools
    Task Automation
    DevOps Infrastructure
    Latest News
    Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbsAug 19, 2026
    Blog post: A long-running agent is still just a workerAug 7, 2026
    Markets
    • Software developers
    • System administrators
    • Indie hackers

    AI Tools by Capto

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    Capto

    Cron Job Monitoring Service

    Monitoring ToolsTask AutomationDevOps Infra

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    Latest News

    08/19/2026

    Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs

    news.ycombinator.com
    08/07/2026

    Blog post: A long-running agent is still just a worker

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    07/28/2026

    Pricing decision: Why detection speed is not a plan lever

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    Products & Services

    1
    Capto
    2026-08

    A dead-man's switch for monitoring background jobs (heartbeat, cron, HTTP, Docker) that provides the last useful context through breadcrumbs.

    Market Position

    Capto positions itself as a simpler, context-aware alternative to Healthchecks.io and Cronitor, specifically focusing on providing 'breadcrumbs' of information right in the alert.

    Leadership

    Founders

    J

    johndory80

    Brazilian developer who built Capto to solve monitoring issues with workers and cron jobs. Active in the Brazilian developer community (r/brdev).

    Founding Story

    The founder built Capto to keep track of a worker that was stopping too often without an obvious reason and needed to know the context of the job when it stopped.

    Business Model

    Revenue Model

    Subscription-based (SaaS)

    Pricing Tiers

    Free
    $0 forever

    20 checks, 5 alert channels, 3 days history kept, 30s detection.

    Pro
    $9 per month

    100 checks, 20 alert channels, 90 days history kept, 30s detection.

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • Software developers
    • System administrators
    • Indie hackers
    Use Cases
    • Monitoring background workers
    • Cron job failure detection
    • Container health tracking
    • Debugging stalled AI agents

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    Brazil
    Founded
    2026
    Employees
    1

    History & Milestones

    2026-08-19

    Public launch on Hacker News (Show HN).

    2026-07-28

    Decision to not sell faster detection as a paid tier announced on blog.

    2026-07-14

    Feature update: separating detection from notification (Muting).

    Key Capabilities

    6
    Heartbeat monitoring
    Cron schedule monitoring
    HTTP polling
    Breadcrumbs (structured context)
    Independant detection and notification
    ntfy, Telegram, email, and webhook integrations

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • ntfy
    • Telegram
    • Email
    • Webhooks

    Key Partnerships

    Supabase (Auth/Database)
    Vercel (Hosting)
    Cloudflare (DNS/Proxy)

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    Website
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    AI Topics

    3

    Capto focuses on these topics:

    Monitoring Tools(1)
    Task Automation(1)
    DevOps Infrastructure(1)
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