alt Hacker NewsCreating a Windows service is a bit harder (as Windows actually uses a real API for services rather than just relying on process spawning and scripting around that), but with task scheduler you can schedule tasks to run once a month in all kinds of ways.
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sixothree • today at 4:22 PM
A Windows Service is something you (generally) want running 24x7. In fact I think a Windows Service seems very much like the wrong thing to do here. Services are not the only way to schedule things in Windows.
And you can "just" use nssm to wrap any arbitrary executable with what is needed to make it a windows service.
edit: Windows can use Node and Playwright just fine. I think the only thing this needs a Mac for is to schedule and send messages as an alert.
> a real API for services rather than just relying on process spawning and scripting around that
What's the difference? Aren't services always just spawned processes?