Pico API
A lightweight Postman alternative in a Chrome tab
Details
- External ID
- 1241342
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pico API
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, API, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Description
Pico API is a lightweight HTTP client and REST API testing tool for Chrome. Send requests, debug APIs, watch streaming responses live, and manage environments — all locally in your browser.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight api testing tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight Chrome extension for sending HTTP requests and inspecting responses can be easily developed using standard browser fetch APIs and Manifest V3.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 19 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 20 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 135 days after the earliest competitor.
- urlshot.io · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FronzaTools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- PicoMQ · hn · 2026-08-24 · 159 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Sendhit · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- JSON Object Validator · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- PhotoSweep · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- apis-that-find-your-next-clients · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Shotlock · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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