Tuesday, 13 January 2026

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support

Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support
8 by michielme | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So it's decorators for scheduling (@scheduler.every(5).minutes, @scheduler.daily.at("09:00")), state saves to JSON so jobs survive restarts, and there's an optional FastAPI dashboard if you want to see what's running. No Redis, no message broker, runs in-process with your app. Trade-off is it's single process only — if you need distributed workers, stick with Celery.