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Emails maybe ? But it means you have to regularly check your inbox. Or use a webhook called by your email provider when you receive an email :D

We built Svix[1] exactly for this reason. We make it super easy for companies to send webhooks reliably. There are only three companies with a "perfect score" on webhooks.fyi's list, we power one of them. ;)

[1] https://www.svix.com

That's awesome and glad to see others making it easier and better to do this right.

Obviously you should add some of your other customers to make sure they get the attention they deserve.

Also, there are other patterns or practices that should be in the list, let us know. PRs are welcome but feel free to email me directly: danger@ngrok.com

Will email you now in a bit! I also just replied to your other comment about another topic, so there's much to discuss. :)

> What alternatives are there?

At the top of my head: Short Polling, long polling, websockets, response streaming, SSE, SNS, paging API, comet...