I love everything about Yaak.
How and why it was born. The transparency of the author. The simplicity of the tool. I really hope the user base grows in the future.
So awesome. I love the pricing model, I’ve seen it before for MacOS apps where they are free to build yourself, but have a cost for convenience if you want it on the App Store. How is it working for you so far?
I'm gonna say it, at the risk of begin downvoted to hell, what the is target developer of this kind of HTTP clients? This is the second client I see in a single day and I'm having hard time understanding these apps/utility.
It is not difficult to make HTTP request, there is no need to pay a client to save those requests. What I would gladly pay is a client that makes those requests testable and repeatable in an ergonomic way. HURL come close, but its testing language is quite limited and disappointing.
I'm sorry for being harsh, but the goal should not be making HTTP requests easy. The goal should be making HTTP requests easily testable in an automatic way. That's why I still use Laravel Guzzle, I write requests and test them in programmatic way with a proper testing framework.
It's just personal preference. If you don't see the need for this type of tool in your workflow, you likely aren't the target user. It's very similar to GUI database clients. Sure, you could use the command line, but a lot of people need something more powerful.
I started with a folder of Curl requests / environment variables, but it quickly fell over when I needed more complex logic, OAuth, better organization, visual response previews, or anything else that came with my non-trivial use case.
Always good to include a short section in which you describe what the tool/product is. Going from your release page to your homepage it seems to be a Postman alternative, though I didn't necessarily pick that up from your content above the fold.
"Yaak is still open source under the MIT license. You can view, modify, and run the source code for both personal and commercial use. Licensing applies only to the prebuilt binaries."
Is there differences on the compiled binary vs what I'd get compiling it myself?
this is the second time i found your tool/app (insomnia) now yaak
i was so sad when insomnia felt like it went down hill :( barely could handle grpc properly and odd need for an account then i saw this by kong thing and was like well shit.
yay now i can have a normal app again, and thanks for making tools i use pretty much everyday.
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It is not difficult to make HTTP request, there is no need to pay a client to save those requests. What I would gladly pay is a client that makes those requests testable and repeatable in an ergonomic way. HURL come close, but its testing language is quite limited and disappointing.
I'm sorry for being harsh, but the goal should not be making HTTP requests easy. The goal should be making HTTP requests easily testable in an automatic way. That's why I still use Laravel Guzzle, I write requests and test them in programmatic way with a proper testing framework.
I started with a folder of Curl requests / environment variables, but it quickly fell over when I needed more complex logic, OAuth, better organization, visual response previews, or anything else that came with my non-trivial use case.
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From the FAQ:
"Yaak is still open source under the MIT license. You can view, modify, and run the source code for both personal and commercial use. Licensing applies only to the prebuilt binaries."
Is there differences on the compiled binary vs what I'd get compiling it myself?
i was so sad when insomnia felt like it went down hill :( barely could handle grpc properly and odd need for an account then i saw this by kong thing and was like well shit.
yay now i can have a normal app again, and thanks for making tools i use pretty much everyday.