
Customer Called Me raged at Midnight
I Built a Webhook Inspector After a Customer Called Me at Midnight Two weeks ago I was integrating Stripe webhooks for a client project. Everything was working fine in development. I deployed to production, went to sleep, and woke up to a message: "Hey, payments aren't going through." I spent 3 hours debugging. The webhook was firing. My server was receiving it. But something in the payload had changed silently — no announcement, no deprecation warning. Just a broken handler and an angry customer. That's when I decided to build HookScope. The Problem Nobody Talks About Webhooks sound simple. Provider sends a POST, you handle it. Easy. Until you're integrating 5 different providers simultaneously. Stripe has its signature format. GitHub has another. Shopify does it differently. Clerk uses Svix under the hood. Przelewy24 — the Polish payment provider — has its own completely custom verification flow that I had to reverse-engineer from their docs. Every provider: Different header names Di
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