Webhooks Are Broken by Design — So I Built a Fix

If you've ever integrated a third-party service, you've dealt with webhooks. Payment processed? Webhook. New subscriber? Webhook. File uploaded? Webhook. They feel simple. A POST request hits your server and you handle it. Done. Except it's not that simple. Not even close. The Problem Nobody Talks About Webhooks are a "fire and forget" mechanism. The sender makes one HTTP request to your endpoint. If that request fails — your server is down, restarting, overloaded, or just returned a 500 — most senders either give up or retry a handful of times with no real strategy. And you never know it happened. No error in your dashboard. No alert. The event is just gone. This is a fundamental design flaw that affects every system using webhooks: E-commerce platforms — an order.paid webhook drops, your fulfillment system never triggers CI/CD pipelines — a push event is missed, your deployment never kicks off SaaS integrations — a subscription.cancelled webhook fails, you keep charging a customer wh