Idea checked
a webhook delivery service
Webhook delivery is a real, crowded problem, but the main gap is visibility and reliability tooling, not basic delivery itself.
Confidence: high — The search returned 80 signals, 8 named projects, 40 first-hand complaints, 9 unsolved questions, and one explicit willingness-to-pay signal. There is enough real data to see both demand and competition.
- hackernews 30
- github 20
- githubissues 20
- discourse 20
- intent 1
- stackexchange 9
- registries 16
- tavily 9
- devto 10
Interest over time From data
Hacker News stories mentioning webhook delivery retries (topic read as “webhook delivery”), by year — 19 in total, currently rising.
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026
This counts discussion on Hacker News, not global search demand. For developer tooling the two move together; for a local service business they do not.
Who is already building this From data
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smee.io is a webhook payload delivery service with 478 stars and a last push on 2026-08-01, so it is still maintained.
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gosmee is a command-line server and client for webhook deliveries with 62 stars and a last push on 2026-08-01, so it is still maintained.
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e2a has 176 stars and a last push on 2026-08-02; it combines authenticated email gateway features with webhook and WebSocket fan-out, so it is still maintained.
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convex-webhook-sender is a managed webhook delivery system for Convex with 3,674 monthly downloads.
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@voyant-travel/webhook-delivery is a durable, policy-aware outbound webhook delivery package with 29,891 monthly downloads, the largest seen in this search.
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@emulators/stripe includes webhook delivery and has 26,793 monthly downloads.
What people actually say From data
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"I’ve been thinking a lot about webhook delivery reliability lately." This HN commenter frames reliability as an active concern, not a solved default.
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"Building robust webhook infra turned out to be deceptively complex" Another HN commenter lists retries, non-2xx handling, monitoring, back-pressure, and signing as the hard parts.
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"Building a production-ready webhook delivery system from scratch takes weeks." This HN post explicitly says the infrastructure work is non-trivial.
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"How do you handle production webhook delivery reliability in your apps?" This HN thread shows practitioners still asking for patterns, not just picking a default tool.
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"Is there any way to list webhook deliveries for the webhook configured for a GitHub App?" This GitHub issue asks for basic delivery inspection and redelivery.
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"Having a way for user to observe the webhook delivery status" This GitHub issue asks for delivery status visibility in the product UI.
People asking to be sold to From data
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"Would pay for webhook delivery notifications as long as it isn’t more expensive than AWS SES." This is a direct willingness-to-pay signal.
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"I could not find a solution in the existing issues, docs, nor discussions." This issue is a clear unmet-need signal for guaranteed webhook delivery.
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"It would be awesome to get a notification to discord or teams whenever an email is not sent successfully." This asks for failure notifications on top of delivery.
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"I was hoping to have some webhook triggering event that could be post specific and would send the post information through in the webhook delivery." This shows a need for more precise event control.
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"we want to use AMP emails and ticket #221628 was handled pretty poorly." This is not about webhooks directly, but it shows frustration with current provider handling and workflow reliability.
Where the opening is Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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The signals do not show a strong player focused on delivery observability for end users: recent deliveries, response bodies, redelivery, and status views are repeatedly requested, but the common products here are mostly delivery engines or SDKs.
- githubissues Track and monitor webhook delivery 2024-09-06
- githubissues GitHub App Webhook Deliveries support 2022-03-15
- githubissues Add a tab to view all deliveries processed under a webhook 2023-01-02
- githubissues Webhook Deliveries Logs: show user endpoint response 2024-09-06
- githubissues View of webhook deliveries 2022-06-29
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The search also suggests a gap in policy-aware outbound delivery with strong controls like retries, signing, dedupe, and per-endpoint visibility in one place; those features appear scattered across projects rather than packaged as the core product.
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I do not see evidence of a dominant product that combines webhook delivery hosting with a polished customer portal for debugging and support workflows.
How big the market might be Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This search found 8 named projects, split into 4 active and 4 of unknown activity.
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The largest package in the search pulls 29,891 downloads per month, and the next largest pulls 26,793 downloads per month.
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There were 40 first-hand complaints, 9 unsolved questions, and 1 stated willingness-to-pay signal.
- githubissues Webhook delivery stopped around April 9th ? 2025-04-10
- hackernews How do you handle production webhook delivery reliability in your apps? 2025-06-28
- githubissues Guaranteed message delivery over webhooks 2022-03-20
- githubissues Track and monitor webhook delivery 2024-09-06
- githubissues GitHub App Webhook Deliveries support 2022-03-15
- intent Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers 2023-05-30
- githubissues Feature-Request: Webhook for failed deliveries 2022-01-27
- githubissues Add a tab to view all deliveries processed under a webhook 2023-01-02
- githubissues Webhook Deliveries Logs: show user endpoint response 2024-09-06
- discourse Need more info about webhooks 2026-04-15
- githubissues View of webhook deliveries 2022-06-29
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Matching threads showed up across 6 communities: community.home-assistant.io, community.n8n.io, community.openai.com, discuss.elastic.co, forum.djangoproject.com, and meta.discourse.org.
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There is enough usage and complaint volume here to justify a narrow product, but this is still a search-local estimate, not a market-wide count.
- registries npm: @voyant-travel/webhook-delivery 2026-07-31
- hackernews How do you handle production webhook delivery reliability in your apps? 2025-06-28
- githubissues Track and monitor webhook delivery 2024-09-06
- githubissues GitHub App Webhook Deliveries support 2022-03-15
- intent Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers 2023-05-30
- githubissues Feature-Request: Webhook for failed deliveries 2022-01-27
- githubissues View of webhook deliveries 2022-06-29
What could go wrong Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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Competition is real: smee.io, gosmee, Convoy, and Svix already cover parts of webhook sending, retries, and delivery infrastructure.
- github probot/smee.io 2019-03-31
- github chmouel/gosmee 2022-04-19
- hackernews Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust 2022-02-15
- hackernews Launch HN: Svix (YC W21) – Webhooks as a Service 2021-06-16
- hackernews Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native webhooks service 2022-02-25
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A generic webhook delivery service can become a commodity unless it clearly wins on debugging, customer-facing delivery history, or policy controls.
- githubissues Track and monitor webhook delivery 2024-09-06
- githubissues GitHub App Webhook Deliveries support 2022-03-15
- githubissues Add a tab to view all deliveries processed under a webhook 2023-01-02
- githubissues Webhook Deliveries Logs: show user endpoint response 2024-09-06
- githubissues View of webhook deliveries 2022-06-29
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Security is a live risk area because webhook secrets and bearer tokens have been called out in recent complaints and HN posts.
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Some of the active demand may be from developers wanting a feature inside an existing platform, not a separate standalone product.
What to do this week Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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Start with a narrow product: webhook delivery logs, retry controls, redelivery, and endpoint response visibility for teams that already send webhooks.
- githubissues Track and monitor webhook delivery 2024-09-06
- githubissues GitHub App Webhook Deliveries support 2022-03-15
- githubissues Add a tab to view all deliveries processed under a webhook 2023-01-02
- githubissues Webhook Deliveries Logs: show user endpoint response 2024-09-06
- githubissues View of webhook deliveries 2022-06-29
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Make the customer-facing portal the wedge, not the delivery engine; the delivery engine can be straightforward, but the debugging workflow seems undersupplied.
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Bake in signing, dedupe, rate limiting, and alerting from day one because those are recurring pain points in the discussion signals.
- hackernews How do you handle production webhook delivery reliability in your apps? 2025-06-28
- githubissues cron: webhook bearer token is attached to any job-supplied delivery.to host 2026-07-28
- hackernews Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails. 2026-04-14
- githubissues Feature-Request: Webhook for failed deliveries 2022-01-27
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Test pricing against the one explicit willingness-to-pay signal that said it should be cheaper than AWS SES.
Competitor strength From data
Counted, not judged. Only projects that expose a hard number — stars, downloads, last commit — appear here, so they stop looking identical to each other. Products with no public metrics are discussed above instead of being given a row they cannot fill.
| Project | Stars | Downloads / mo | Activity |
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| probot/smee.io | 478 | — | Active 2026-08-01 |
| savvyagents/larasend | 437 | — | Active 2026-07-30 |
| tokencanopy/e2a | 176 | — | Active 2026-08-02 |
| chmouel/gosmee | 62 | — | Active 2026-08-01 |
| npm: @voyant-travel/webhook-delivery npm | — | 29,891 | — |
| npm: @emulators/stripe npm | — | 26,793 | — |
| npm: convex-webhook-sender npm | — | 3,674 | — |
| npm: n8n-nodes-pritset npm | — | 743 | — |
- 4 open source
- 4 package
- 4 active
- 40 first-hand complaints
- 1 stated wants
- 6 communities discussing it
Domain names From data
Checked live against the registry, built from the subject of the idea rather than the first words of the sentence. A literal check is a fact; a brandable suggestion would be noise.
- webhookdelivery.com available
- webhookdelivery.io available
- webhook.com taken
- getwebhook.com taken
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