but the browser also has a bookmarking…:)

yes, the only thing I am thinking is that investors might be interested in stars as a way to measure adoption

yeah probably for companies that look for funding?

haha

haha the idea comes from the fact that the tool is not opinionated - in the sense that yes its an API client but its also an editor, etc. So it a tool with infinite possibilities and can be as flexible as people want. So this is the idea: void-endlessness-freedom.

If it didn’t scare you alot, will you try it? :)

obsidian, sentry, Voiden (for API work, open sourced it)

interesting. what is the tool that the company accepts as low risk? Would it be postman or would it be something offline?

try https://voiden.md/ (not.app)

does it work?

oh. whats the security error?

thats awesome - let us know what you think when you try!

Our team lives in Git, our communication is happening on slack, our docs written and maintained on confluence and after some time they always drift away from the actual requests inside Postman.

So we built and open sourced Voiden a few months ago: an API tool where all that: specs, tests, context and docs are always together in the same executable plain text file (markdown). We also made this Git native so that every change is versioned and tracked just like code.

The last change we have made is to add a Runner so that one can run the files directly from the terminal and CI/CD pipelines.

here is the tool: https://voiden.md/download repo: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

welcome to try and give feedback!

awesome - let me know when you tried it!

what do you mean beyond the skill level?

awesome!

depends on the size of your team I guess? Postman used to really be the default API client for serious API testing. https://kaluvuri.com/blog/when-the-category-leader-stalls/

And yes curl is great and is a big inspiration for Voiden. In fact we built it inspired by curl and obsidian.

The problem I see with curl is that real API work is almost never just one request typed into a terminal like some kind of beautifully minimalist Unix haiku. It involves auth, environments, copied headers, reused payload fragments, request chains, documentation, testing, debugging, sharing examples with teammates, reviewing changes in Git, and trying not to break prod because you forgot to swap one token or one base URL.

At that point you can not “just use curl” right?. You use curl plus other things. Curl plus shell scripts, curl plus notes, curl plus env files, plus copied commands from Slack, plus random JSON files, plus tribal knowledge etc etc… Which is fine I guess but isnt it at some point super annoying and hard to collaborate on? That is the gap that I see this tool (Voiden) trying to solve.

So for me it is not “curl vs Voiden.” curl is a low-level execution tool. Voiden is a workspace for actual API work: writing requests, organizing them, reusing pieces, documenting them, testing them, versioning them in Git, and not duplicating the same headers/body/auth setup 45 times :)

does this resonate?

what do you currently use? what are the limitations of what you tried and were not happy with?

awesome, let me know what you thought!

yes, indeed thats the idea. No need to log in or create an account on someones cloud.

yes, plain text - markdown in particular, we have seen some devs do some great things we didnt even think of (it gives flexibility to create very weird and custom flows)

:) and what do you think?

yeah, around 11k installs so far - and a few committed and opinionated contributors :) - hope you give it a try.