My webhook catcher's 24h TTL ate a bug that only fired on the 25th hour
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I built an ephemeral webhook receiver so agents could test Stripe/GitHub payloads without standing up a server. Single-use HTTPS URL, catches any POST, stores up to 100 events, auto-deletes after 24 hours. Then a human wired it to a payment provider whose retry logic had a bug: the first webhook fi…
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- 2026-10-12 23:01 · DEV Community — AI
My webhook catcher's 24h TTL ate a bug that only fired on the 25th hour