This is excellent Greg thanks for sharing! One thing I do find missing from a lot of these API clients is synced environment variable entries between environments.
For example if I create a `dev` environment that contains a `base_url` environment variable, it's expected that when I create a `prod` environment, it will also have a `base_url` environment variable. Then in the future if I add more environment variables to my `dev` environment, I need to duplicate the work of adding an environment variable entry to `prod.
I can't be the only one that experiences this pain :P The UX of this could be handled in any number of ways:
- When you create a new environment, ask if you want to duplicate an existing environment's variable names (with empty values)
- If you add a new environment variable, ask if you want to add the environment variable name to another environment
- Option to enable syncing between all environments i.e. deleting a variable row in one environment deletes it for the rest etc
I was about to post this as a github issue for traction but given Issues are turned off thought this may be the next best place.
Regardless, Yaak is excellent!
Would love to see a comparison with Bruno[1].
[1]: https://usebruno.com
> 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.
That's a pretty interesting pricing strategy. I think REHL is the only other project I saw with this type of pricing.
> The interface is clean and much nicer to use than bloated alternatives like Insomnia and Postman.
As I recall, both _used_ to be the same way.
This got much less attention than I would have expected.
Yaak is awesome, please please please keep it local-friendly
I’ve been using Yaak for a few weeks now and it’s great.
I bounce around API clients a lot because the UX just never feels right, they always get in the way or start to feel clunky sooner or later.
With Yaak it feels natural, it’s clean and simple and is a joy to use.
I’m looking forward to seeing it grow and improve further.
I just hope as its feature set grows it can hold on to that simplicity. Hopefully the plugin system can be used to bridge any gaps without overloading the main app.
Ah! I was so happy I can put postman to rest. What I didn't like is the landing page did not clearly communicate I am installing a non-free product with a trial, so I uninstalled it. I am only letting you know that this trick might affect retention.
Yaak is great, I have been using it since the launch Greg.
I'm kind of curious why you picked Tauri over Electron for this one? I know one big benefit is smaller binaries but I'd love to know your thoughts behind this decision.
How can we be sure that Yaak won't be sold and enshittified two years from now?
Maybe I'm nitpicky, but I love sticking to software for years, had to ditch Insomnia after an auto-update killed my collections and wanted me to sign up for a cloud service. Could happen with this (yes, any software for that matter), too, because you'll sell it in a year from now.
Did you consider JetBrains licensing model? I don't like renting software, I'd rather buy it upfront, but JetBrains with their fallback licenses really got me – you get your perpetual fallback license for a particular version of product. And guess what, I keep paying them anyway, because of confidence I can fallback, but they keep innovating with new updates.
fantastic. i was about to make my own after being frustated with bruno's change in billing and just lack of quality.
having gone from postman -> insomnia -> back to postman -> bruno - id like to just have something simple that _just works_ without making it a pain.
looking forward to giving this a spin.
> But, after selling Insomnia in 2019 and watching it expand into the broader feature set of Postman, I was left wanting a simpler tool again. Yaak was my answer to that
I'd love to read about your experience building two distinct but similar products in the same space years apart
What about a license for devs to use when it’s commercial, but their company won’t buy it?
Kind of like how Quokka has a “personal pro” license.
I use yaak! Great piece of software for just not having to memorize curl syntax, wrestle postman
What’s the end goal though? Planning to sell a licensed version? I’d be happy to pay for a model where I can own it for life but only get updates for a year.
Thought this was about the language learning app https://yakk.app/ for a brief moment looming at the URL!
Looks great!! I would love to move to this as my go-to API client but my fear is it stops getting maintained overtime like httpie.io but at least this is open source so a great win!
Cool stuff, how does it compare with httpYac? > https://httpyac.github.io/
Downloaded it, looks great. I am building a desktop app as well (very different functionality) and I wonder how do you do license management?
Was looking for a simple API fiddler, and you presented one! Thank you, will jump on it ASAP to play.
I love your landing page & overall design of the home page. So clean. Love the color scheme as well.
Congratulations ! Will test this out tomorrow :)
what tech did you use to make it desktop app? ----I'm looking to use Avalonia UI soon, ive used Wails tho.
Yaak is so underrated!
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The Software tool lifecycle:
1. Dev makes a cool lightweight productive tool
2. Tool becomes popular
3. Company buys tool
4. Company adds a bunch of shit nobody needs making the product bloated and annoying to use.
5. Dev makes a cool lightweight productive tool