5 posts tagged with "webhooks"

Every modern SaaS needs to react to events: a user signs up, a payment succeeds, a trial expires. Webhooks are the glue that connects these events to your business logic—but building reliable webhook infrastructure means managing servers, queues, retries, and databases.

Email automation platforms promise to handle this, but they come with baggage: vendor lock-in, limited webhook integrations, and opaque pricing that scales against you.

What if your webhook endpoints could directly power your email automation?

You've built a powerful automation: Stripe payment → Zapier → Slack notification + Google Sheet update + email confirmation. It works beautifully.

But there's a problem: anyone who knows your Zapier webhook URL can trigger your automation with fake data.

The same is true for Make (Integromat), n8n, and IFTTT. These platforms prioritize ease-of-use, but they don't verify that incoming webhooks are actually from Stripe, GitHub, or whoever you think is sending them.

The solution? Use Codehooks as a verified webhook gateway that sits between the webhook sender and your automation platform.

Most AI projects don't need a fleet of orchestration tools to run a few prompt chains. The real work is state management, retries, scheduling, and simple persistence—the operational glue between LLM API calls.

This post shows you how to build a production-ready text summarization workflow using Codehooks.io, the Workflow API, and OpenAI. You'll learn:

• OpenAI API integration patterns: Error handling, retries, rate limiting, and cost optimization
• Workflow state management: Building reliable multi-step processes with caching and persistence
• Webhook triggers: Event-driven workflows that respond to GitHub issues (and other external services)
• Programmatic access: How to trigger and manage workflows via REST API, CLI, and webhooks

By the end, you'll have a working summarizer that caches results, stores them in a NoSQL database, and can be triggered via REST API or GitHub webhooks—all deployed with a single command.

Here's the workflow we'll build:

You've built an amazing application. Users love it. Now they're asking: "Can you send webhooks when events happen?"

Maybe it's:

• An e-commerce platform where customers want order notifications and webhook delivery
• A SaaS tool where users need real-time webhook alerts
• An IoT system where devices trigger external workflows via webhooks
• A business application where events need webhook integration with other systems

The problem? Building a production-ready webhook delivery system from scratch takes weeks. Setting up webhook infrastructure, managing webhook queues, and handling webhook retries is complex.

The solution? Use this Codehooks.io webhook template and have webhook delivery running in 5 minutes.

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and webhooks are crucial for connecting different systems, enhancing software capabilities, and creating seamless user experiences. Whether you're pulling data from external services or receiving real-time events via webhooks, API integration is at the heart of modern application development. This guide will provide examples to walk you through understanding the meaning of API integration, implementing, and overcoming challenges in API integration, making the process easier and more efficient.