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Eat the frog order

Eat the frog is the productivity rule that says you should tackle your hardest, most energy-draining task first, before the day fills with easier work and interruptions.

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Teams, coaches, and personal planners often score each item on a simple difficulty scale and then need a stable order that puts the highest score at the top of the morning list. This task order by difficulty calculator accepts a list of tasks with numeric difficulty scores, sorts them hardest first with stable tie-breaking, and returns the full ranked sequence plus a frog field naming the single hardest item. The same pure analytic path powers the free browser tool and the paid API, so standup bots, weekly review templates, and coaching apps never disagree on which ticket should lead the day when difficulty scores are already known.

How to use it

Enter your values in the form above. The tool checks them before calculating and shows the result on the same page.

Check your inputs

Use the labels and units shown next to each field. If something is missing or outside the allowed range, the page points to the field to fix.

Use it again or automate it

Use the browser tool for individual checks and the API when you need the same capability in an automated workflow.

What you can do with it

Get an answer now

Enter one set of values and see the result without building a spreadsheet or script.

Compare scenarios

Change one value at a time and rerun the calculation to understand what affects the result.

Automate repeated work

Use the API when the same calculation needs to run inside your product or workflow.

FAQ

How do I use this capability?

Complete the fields above and run it on this page. The form highlights anything that needs attention.

For developers — API access

Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.

API endpoint

POSThttps://api.kit.forhosting.com/biz/eat-the-frog-order

Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.

Call it from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/biz/eat-the-frog-order \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tasks":[{"name":"Draft annual report","difficulty":9},{"name":"Reply to routine emails","difficulty":2},{"name":"Prepare board slides","difficulty":7}]}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/biz/eat-the-frog-order", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "tasks": [
      {
        "name": "Draft annual report",
        "difficulty": 9
      },
      {
        "name": "Reply to routine emails",
        "difficulty": 2
      },
      {
        "name": "Prepare board slides",
        "difficulty": 7
      }
    ]
  })
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/biz/eat-the-frog-order",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "tasks": [
        {
            "name": "Draft annual report",
            "difficulty": 9
        },
        {
            "name": "Reply to routine emails",
            "difficulty": 2
        },
        {
            "name": "Prepare board slides",
            "difficulty": 7
        }
    ]
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]

<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/biz/eat-the-frog-order", false, stream_context_create([
  "http" => [
    "method"  => "POST",
    "header"  => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
    "content" => '{"tasks":[{"name":"Draft annual report","difficulty":9},{"name":"Reply to routine emails","difficulty":2},{"name":"Prepare board slides","difficulty":7}]}',
  ],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);

body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"tasks":[{"name":"Draft annual report","difficulty":9},{"name":"Reply to routine emails","difficulty":2},{"name":"Prepare board slides","difficulty":7}]}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/biz/eat-the-frog-order", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Example request

{
  "tasks": [
    {
      "name": "Draft annual report",
      "difficulty": 9
    },
    {
      "name": "Reply to routine emails",
      "difficulty": 2
    },
    {
      "name": "Prepare board slides",
      "difficulty": 7
    }
  ]
}

Example response

{
  "task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "biz.eat_the_frog_order",
  "status": "queued",
  "_links": {
    "result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
  }
}

The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.

Pricing

Per request$0.002

Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.

Errors

HTTP	Code	Meaning
`401`	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid API key.
`402`	`insufficient_balance`	Your balance doesn't cover the task price.
`404`	`unknown_type`	That task type doesn't exist.
`429`	`rate_limited`	Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling.

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