From 7f299873cfba99153cb4515dfd042178006d5af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kansaram <kansaram30@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 19:00:46 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add GitHub Actions keep-alive ping for Render backend

Pings backend every 10 minutes so Render free tier never sleeps.
Reads BACKEND_URL from GitHub Actions secret.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/keep-alive.yml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/keep-alive.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/keep-alive.yml b/.github/workflows/keep-alive.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d56133b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/keep-alive.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+name: Keep Backend Alive
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '*/10 * * * *'  # every 10 minutes
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  ping:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Ping backend
+        run: |
+          curl -sf ${{ secrets.BACKEND_URL }} || echo "Backend ping failed"