Show HN: Webhooks That Email You (webhooked.email)

5 points by hardwaresofton ↗ HN
Hey HN,

I spent the long weekend on a small tool for sending myself emails via webhook. Yes, webhook-to-email in 2023 (somehow most things I could find are email-to-webhook or not quite easy to set up).

Yep, I'm aware this problem is very much already solved(tm) in a bunch of ways:

- Zapier exists - IFTTT exists - Slack webhooks exist (this one is probably what normal people would pick) - Native email integrations usually exist in whatever tool in the first place

Somehow, I still find myself wanting a super easy way to get an email delivered to me when a webhook endpoint is hit (via POST or GET). Maybe I just run more early software than other people, or am far too comfortable `curl`ing from CI or other dodgy execution contexts...

Knowing that an email with whatever data I want to attach is just one web request away makes it pretty easy for me. Also, this fits in well with software that has just the webhook part and not much other configurability.

Anyway, the website is as simple as you think it is:

1. Put in your email 2. We validate your email and give you a URL 3. You GET or POST to that URL, and an email flies to your inbox

If this sounds like something you want in your life, I encourage you to check it out!

There's no login, only an email address is required (to do... the email sending).

There's a free tier and a very low (but probably commensurate) price because I do indeed like money, but between you and me, the limits aren't really enforced (and probably won't be for quite a while, barring abuse).

Don't ask what I used to build this -- it's embarrassingly over-engineered for what most people would do in an hour and call it a day (and achieve the same results).

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Nice idea. I looked for something like this and settled on an app called pushover. That is more “api to phone alert” which also accepted emails. The reason is for a strong delineation between what emails should wake me up while I put everything else on DND.

Your idea is great for indie hackers who want an email when something important happens on their site.

Thanks for checking it out, and thanks for the encouragement, it means a lot :).

> Your idea is great for indie hackers who want an email when something important happens on their site.

Yup, I built this to scratch my own itch, and it does. Don’t expect it to be super popular but glad to finally ship and move on!

No problems. Just checked out your bio. Interesting stuff especially the OSS in top of cheap clouds stuff.
Oh yeah if you're interested in Nimbus[0][1], please check it out, or sign up for the mailing list (please excuse the ugly landing page, haven't had time to go back and update it).

That's what I was supposed to be working on while I was working on this :)

Will be back to focusing on Nimbus and trying to get more services integrated -- it's been a very slow slog because I've been boiling the world and trying to figure out how to do distributed storage with minimal data loss probability (the original timeline was last year for the first batch of services, believe it or not).

Right now if you make an account you can launch Redis services, and there should be more in the near future.

[0]: https://nimbusws.com

[1]: https://nimbusws.com/app

Reminds me a of a short lived project websocket.email. Instead of webhook, you could listen on websocket for emails. Might be a Pro feature for your project.

https://github.com/websocket-email (there's no server anymore, but client lives on GH)

Never say “* exists” as an excuse. When zapier came out Yahoo Pipes existed.