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KayRice

Introducing Cronnit - A free tool for making scheduled posts on Reddit! Source is available on GitHub!

I was irritated by other sites charging (a lot IMO) for this feature. My goal was simple: I want to be able to post daily tips to r/kde, but I can't allocate the time to login at a specific time every day and sometimes I go a few days without touching Reddit when I am busy. AutoModerator allows for scheduled posts, but from what I can tell does so in a way that requires mod privileges for the Wiki of a subreddit.

Thus, https://cronnit.us was born!

It was thrown together over a few hours using the following bits and pieces:

  • LAMP - Ubuntu Server, Apache2, MySQL 5, PHP 7 hosted on a $2 server from Vultr
  • RedBean 5.2 an ORM for storing data quickly without a rigid schema
  • rtheunissen/oauth2-reddit for OAuth2 support for the Reddit API
  • Twig for writing templates that don't suck

I am also making the source available under the MIT license so anyone is free to modify the code or learn from it.

Posted Aug 29, 2018, 1:45 PM UTC

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