About Hooktrace
Hooktrace is a self-hosted webhook engine for capturing, inspecting, replaying, and retrying webhook events. It is aimed at indie hackers and startups who want webhook debugging without an enterprise stack. The public site is still in private beta with an early-access waitlist. The product is also published as open source on GitHub (hooktracehq/hooktrace) under Apache 2.0.
What Hooktrace does
- Instant webhook relay
- Public endpoints to capture events without extra config.
- Real-time debugging
- Event logs, request/response inspection, and manual replay.
- Smart retries
- Exponential backoff, circuit breaking, and a dead-letter queue.
- Local forwarding
- Receive provider webhooks on localhost without a separate tunnel tool.
- Self-hosting
- Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with signature validation and audit logs.
Who it’s for
Backend and platform engineers, indie hackers, and small teams who need to debug Stripe, GitHub, Clerk, or similar webhooks. Less suitable if you want a finished hosted SaaS today: the public site is still waitlist / private beta.
What it costs
The GitHub repo is Apache 2.0 and self-hosted. The public site does not publish hosted pricing; it currently offers early access / private beta.
