4 ms·

Clearly the job for a microservice. Accept number of seconds to wait as url, return content after that many seconds. Then just use curl in runner.

• xp84 11mo ago
  Brb founding a SaaS startup. I’ll call it cloudsleep dot io of course. After our Series B I’ll buy the .com. Only task to do before lining up investors is how can I weave AI into our product?
  • debugnik 11mo ago
    Describe the task you're waiting for as text, and let an LLM pick the number of seconds for each request. More expensive the better model you clearly need for this. There, your AI pitch.
    • xp84 11mo ago
      Excellent, welcome aboard, Chief Product Officer!
• wmanley 11mo ago
  Retries won’t work in that case. Would be better to have two endpoints: get the time in x seconds and wait until time passed. That way retrying the wait endpoint will work fine and if time hasn’t elapsed it can just curl itself with the same arguments.
• dpkirchner 11mo ago
  If you have curl (but not sleep) sure, but if not maybe you can use bash's wacky /dev/tcp. The microservice could listen on ports 1 through 64k to let you specify how many seconds to sleep.