webhooked.email
Infrastructure
webhook notifications
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How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 4 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple idea useful for honeypots and deployment notifications
From 2 comments
Can get an email if a bad guy goes in my honeypot
BigParm on HNI want a webhooked Telegram / pusher bot. Email has a 2-3 second delay which is annoying for my deployment notifications.
_xnmw on HN
Objections
Free tier is restrictive
From 1 comment
I think this is a good idea. I can see many uses, but I believe the free tier is a bit restricted (32 emails per month). You can set up a Catch Webhook [1] + Outgoing Email [2]…
selcuka on HN
Similar services already exist such as Formspree
From 1 comment
There are already plenty of services that do this though, eg formspree.
mmarian on HN
Requests
Heartbeat alerts when a webhook stops firing
From 1 comment
It would be nice to have an inverse. Aka send an email if this webhook has not been triggered in the last 24 hours (or some other suitable time)
gw_shadow on HN
Push notifications via Telegram, Pushover or Slack
From 3 comments
I want a webhooked Telegram / pusher bot. Email has a 2-3 second delay which is annoying for my deployment notifications.
_xnmw on HNSorry I meant Pushover not Pusher. https://pushover.net/ Pushover is supposedly dead simple to use, but I've been lazy to integrate it and download the apps for my system, setup…
_xnmw on HNFeature request received! Pusher as in this thing -- https://pusher.com/ right? Any other places you want to push to? Slack?
hardwaresofton on HN
Example of the email layout on the landing page
From 1 comment
you should show an example of what the email looks like
ehPReth on HN
Questions
How many users does it have
From 1 comment
Fair enough, I was wondering whether I was missing something out. How many users do you have at the moment?
mmarian on HN
Alternatives named
Zapier
From 1 comment
I think this is a good idea. I can see many uses, but I believe the free tier is a bit restricted (32 emails per month). You can set up a Catch Webhook [1] + Outgoing Email [2]…
selcuka on HN
Formspree
From 1 comment
There are already plenty of services that do this though, eg formspree.
mmarian on HN
healthchecks.io
From 1 comment
I use https://healthchecks.io [1] to track backup tasks and alert if they haven't run in X days. With one cURL command at the start and one at the end, I also get alerts…
BoppreH on HN
Val Town
From 1 comment
Check out Val Town[0] for another way of setting up these kind of email webhooks! [0] https://val.town
nbbaier on HN