A little tangential, but I recently created a small tool called "tsk" (pronounced same as task)
I'm calling it a "speed-dial for your APIs". I used to have a VPS that would run out of memory, so easiest way to resolve this was to restart the server. But even that was annoying, so I created a button that would call the API to restart the box. Now I just have to click the button whenever I want to reboot.
Something similar to CRON, I'm currently building a feature in tsk to schedule the tasks.