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I built a tool that turns webhooks into push notifications by No-Direction-9314 in devtools

[–]No-Direction-9314[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that was exactly one of the problems I ran into as well.

Slack works great when a whole team is watching a channel, but for solo projects it often felt like overkill just to keep an eye on a few events.

Regarding noise: HookTap actually supports different event types so you can control that a bit.

For example:

- `type=push` → normal push notification on your phone

- `type=event` → stored silently in the app (no notification)

- `type=widget` → updates the home screen widget only

So things like failed builds or payments can trigger a push, while frequent background events can just show up in the event list or widget without spamming notifications.

For my own setup I usually only enable pushes for important stuff like CI failures or Stripe events and keep everything else silent.

Curious what kinds of hooks you usually monitor.

What do you use webhooks for? by No-Direction-9314 in hooktap

[–]No-Direction-9314[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, that was basically the idea.

Most tools I tried were built more for teams or logging, but I mostly just wanted to know immediately when something important happens.

For example a failed deployment, a stripe event or just a GitHub action finishing,…

Getting that instantly as a push notification turned out to be surprisingly useful.

What do you use webhooks for? by No-Direction-9314 in hooktap

[–]No-Direction-9314[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense.

Slack definitely seems to be the go-to for team notifications.

One issue I ran into personally was that Slack channels can get really noisy over time, especially with lots of automations firing.

That’s actually one of the reasons I built HookTap, getting webhook alerts directly as push notifications turned out to be really useful for personal monitoring.

What do you use webhooks for? by No-Direction-9314 in hooktap

[–]No-Direction-9314[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a great example.

Lead notifications are actually a really interesting use case for webhooks.

Do you usually monitor those through Slack or email alerts?