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Comment by vicwhiten | Hacker News Reader

http://hook.io/ lets you link a gist script to a webhook, very similar. Open source & free.

Hey! Awesome! Just saw a nice bump in signups from this post, thank you!

I'm the sole creator of hook.io. I actually beat Amazon Lamda to market by over a month before they announced...so technically Lamda is a clone of my service! :-)

We are making a bit of revenue now and users really like the service.

We could really use an angel investment to push development forward. I've funded development for the entire project for the past 13 months out of pocket. We have no debt and almost no overhead.

Someone should invest in hook.io!

Oh man, this is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time. What a brilliantly simple implementation!

FYI: it looks like they have a really generous referral program[1], so post your referral link (shameless example: https://hook.io/christiangenco?s) and I'll tweet the developer to see if you can get retroactive credit.

1. https://hook.io/referrals

https://webscript.io is also pretty awesome, if you're willing to learn some Lua.

hook.io supports lua, along with eleven other programming languages.

it's continuously making requests to /totalHits/ if you check the network, is that intentional?

Yes, that is the update counter for the live deployment count on the homepage. It constantly polling our total deployment count and updating the value on the homepage.

I'm a bit of a fan of putting unnecessary stress on our servers in a controlled fashion. This gives me a bit of wiggle room if we need to free up resources in an emergency...which still hasn't happened yet. :-)

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