Introducing HookCap: A Better Way to Test Webhooks

Introducing HookCap: A Better Way to Test Webhooks If you have built anything that receives webhooks, you know the drill: open a testing tool, get a temporary URL, paste it into your webhook provider's settings, trigger an event, refresh the page to see if anything arrived, squint at the payload, and repeat. When the URL expires tomorrow, do it all over again. We built HookCap because this workflow has not meaningfully improved in years, despite webhooks becoming the backbone of modern integrations. Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, Twilio -- nearly every service pushes events via webhooks, yet the tools for testing them still rely on disposable URLs and polling-based UIs. Here is what we changed. The problem with current webhook testing tools Most webhook testers work the same way. You get a temporary URL, point your webhook source at it, and refresh the page to see captured requests. This has three friction points that compound over time: URLs expire. Free tiers on most tools give you URLs th