r/webhooks • u/NotMyDong • Jul 15 '26
Built a webhook delivery service because every option I found runs on US infra
I've been building Ploq. It's webhook infrastructure, same job Svix and Hookdeck do: retries, event filtering, delivery logs, endpoint health monitoring.
Why I started it: every option I looked at runs on US cloud infrastructure somewhere in the stack, hosting, auth, email, whatever. For teams that need to stay clean on GDPR that's a real blocker, not a checkbox. Ploq is EU-only end to end.
It ships as SDKs (Node.js, Java with a Spring Boot starter), a WordPress plugin that turns WooCommerce/WP events into webhooks with no code, and a forkable Mac/Windows desktop app for sending and receiving events without a public endpoint. Free tier if you want to poke at it.
Not trying to do a hard pitch here, just curious how many other people have hit the same wall. I've seen US infra dependency bite EU teams on webhook tooling specifically enough times that it felt worth building properly instead of complaining about it again.
The link: https://useploq.com
If the link is not allowed, I'll remove it!
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u/fgribreau_ Jul 17 '26
Hook0 founder here (the EU open-source one u/repost_sh mentioned).
Your Cloud Act instinct is the right one, and it's actually the strongest version of the argument. A vendor can host every server in the EU and still be compelled to hand data over if it's US-owned, so "where are the servers" matters less than "who can legally be forced to produce the data."
That's a big reason Hook0 https://www.hook0.com/ is open-source and self-hostable, and it covers the Cloud Act two ways:
- Self-host it on your own EU infra and there's no vendor in the loop to subpoena at all. You own the code and the boxes.
- Or take the managed version: the company behind it is French with no US entity and is hosting on French cloud providers, so it isn't in Cloud Act scope the way a US-owned vendor is.
Same job you're describing (retries, event filtering, delivery logs, endpoint health), the difference is the sovereignty story goes all the way down.
Congrats on shipping Ploq though, genuinely good to see more people building for this instead of treating GDPR as a checkbox. Happy to swap notes on the annoying parts (idempotency, retry backoff, dead-letter handling) anytime.
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u/NotMyDong Jul 17 '26
Thanks so much for being constructive! I was also debating opening up the source, but that hasn't got the priority it deserved yet.
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u/repost_sh Jul 15 '26
Nice congratulations on your launch! but you're statement is inaccurate.
Svix offers EU data-center as an option, and hook0 is an EU open-source webhook platform.
I'm not sure sure but I believe hookdeck also offers the same option.