HookBytes

Webhooks are the unsung heroes of modern software. If you’ve ever integrated with Stripe, Paystack, Shopify, or Twilio, you’ve seen how they quietly keep systems in sync. But anyone who has worked with them long enough also knows the frustration: events that disappear into the void, retries that bombard your servers endlessly, logs cluttered with noise, and sleepless nights spent debugging why a payment never got recorded. I’ve lived those headaches. Instead of just patching one more fix, I decided to build something more permanent: a webhook gateway that could reliably ingest, process, and deliver events while giving developers full observability and control. And because I live in the Laravel ecosystem, I wanted it to be Laravel-native, self-hostable, and simple enough for teams like mine to adopt. That’s how HookBytes was born.