The valley of webhooks
- The third timeI’ve built the same system three times now, at three different companies, for three different providers.
- It never has a name and it never appears on a roadmap, but it always goes the same way: the truth about your own customers lives in someone else’s database.
- The users live in an identity provider, the subscriptions in Stripe, the bounces in whatever sends your email, and your product needs that truth locally.
Unverified
- The third timeI’ve built the same system three times now, at three different companies, for three different providers.
- It never has a name and it never appears on a roadmap, but it always goes the same way: the truth about your own customers lives in someone else’s database.
- The users live in an identity provider, the subscriptions in Stripe, the bounces in whatever sends your email, and your product needs that truth locally.
Sources: Weli