Hookdeck
Infrastructure
webhook infrastructure
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful product for handling webhooks, solves building it in-house
From 2 comments
This is something I am looking into at current as we are moving our subscriptions into chargebee and they send a lot of webhooks so this would be ideal for us. Alex do you have…
mrlagmer on HN> we've been focused on getting up to speed to run your own code When this happens, ping me on twitter! I'll send some customers your way. One of my most frequently asked…
ezekg on HN
Neat idea
From 1 comment
This is pretty neat. If you could take it a step further and have integrations to send the response payloads to other services like S3, SES, SQL insert into Redshift, etc then it…
tegansnyder on HN
Objections
Ingestion reliability versus simply running on the same cloud provider
From 1 comment
Our ingestion is a single binary running on $Provider. Aren't you on $Provider too? Wouldn't you be just as reliable as anyone else in $Provider? (But adding complexity) I guess…
edoceo on HN
Lambda payload size limits make in-function webhook handling impractical for large payloads
From 1 comment
Provided your request and response payload is guaranteed to be <6MiB (for synchronous invocation) or <256KiB (for asynchronous invocation). These are AWS Lambda's hard limits,…
zowanet on HN
Requests
Transform webhook payloads before sending downstream
From 2 comments
Hi, do you have the ability to transform the webhook payload before sending it downstream?
Redsquare on HNHey - Relaying to a CDP which expects a fixed schema
Redsquare on HN
Integrations to send payloads to services like S3, SES, Redshift
From 1 comment
This is pretty neat. If you could take it a step further and have integrations to send the response payloads to other services like S3, SES, SQL insert into Redshift, etc then it…
tegansnyder on HN
Questions
Support for signed webhooks such as Stripe
From 1 comment
Hi Alex! Do you support signed webhooks, eg Stripe? Cheers
chrskerr on HN
Public SLA
From 1 comment
Estimated webhook volume for plan choice
From 1 comment
This is something I am looking into at current as we are moving our subscriptions into chargebee and they send a lot of webhooks so this would be ideal for us. Alex do you have…
mrlagmer on HN
Alternatives named
AWS Lambda with boto3 or Chalice
From 1 comment
You can easily do this with AWS Lambda and the boto3 library. You get logging, metrics and alerting if you want too. AWS has a generous free tier. For python devs, this is a…
turtlebits on HN
Zapier
From 1 comment
> we've been focused on getting up to speed to run your own code When this happens, ping me on twitter! I'll send some customers your way. One of my most frequently asked…
ezekg on HN
webhook.site
From 1 comment
I've been using webhook.site for my webhooks. The no-nonsense simplicity just gets me. Meaning to try out this OSS alternative for a while: https://github.com/huginn/huginn…
r_singh on HN
Svix
From 1 comment
Have you all connected with https://www.svix.com/?
yroc92 on HN
Rundeck
From 1 comment
Is this similar to something like rundeck?
indigodaddy on HN