Hi Product Hunt! 👋 HookRun started from a frustration I kept running into: I needed to automate simple actions when webhook events came in — deploy on git push, restart a service on monitoring alert, trigger a script when CI finished — but every existing tool felt like overkill. n8n and Huginn are powerful, but they need Docker, a database, and a GB-level deployment for what's essentially "run this command when this event fires." adnanh/webhook is closer to what I wanted, but it lacked the things I actually needed in production: execution policies to prevent concurrent deploys, hot reload when editing config files, and built-in process management. So I built HookRun. The goal was simple: a webhook listener that's as easy to deploy as a single binary, but doesn't cut corners on security (Token + HMAC + IP whitelist) or reliability (concurrency control via block/always/cooldown policies). Everything runs from YAML files — no database, no containers, no 50-page setup guide. The most interesting part of the process was designing the execution policies. I noticed that a common pain point with webhook-driven deploys is "webhook storms" — push 5 commits in a minute, trigger 5 deploys. The cooldown policy solved this elegantly: it lets you define a minimum interval between executions, which turned out to be the feature people use the most. The whole thing is written in Go, compiles to a ~3MB binary, and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. MIT licensed, completely open source. If you're managing servers and need a lightweight way to turn webhook events into actions, I'd love for you to try it out and let me know what you think. Feedback welcome! 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/bluvenr/hookrun 🔗 Website: https://hookrun.virapi.com/

HookRun

Turn webhook events into server actions with one YAML file

Turn webhook events into server actions with one YAML file