Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native webhooks service

Hi HN, we’re Subomi and Emmanuel, founders of Convoy ( https://getconvoy.io ). Convoy is an open-source webhooks service. We make it easy for developers to publish webhooks like Stripe and Twilio. Convoy is cloud-native so developers can deploy the container to wherever they host their applications. Some time ago I built an API for local fintech companies alongside Emmanuel. While trying to sell this product, we were asked several times for webhooks. We didn't find a great tool that was easy to use, language-agnostic and cloud-native; something that could scale independently of our core service. We decided to build it ourselves. Webhooks are the glue of the modern internet. They are used for asynchronous communication by API providers to notify apps/integrators about events that have occurred in their account. I like to say it as: if you make a payment on Shopify with Stripe’s checkout and Stripe fails to send a webhook event to Shopify’s servers about your payment,