Yapi
FOSS terminal API client for power users
Details
- External ID
- 46352350
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Yapi
- Website domain
- yapi.run
- Launched
- Dec. 22, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 50
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8234732824427481
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I shared a previous version of yapi a few months ago in the comments section of a post talking about the insanity of Postman being 'down'. yapi has developed into a more mature project since then!https://github.com/jamierpond/yapiStill very early, but it makes me much more productive vs Postman, Bruno, Insomnia, etc.If youre a nvim/tmux culture human, you might like this!
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal api client for advanced users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Yapi is a CLI API client that parses YAML configurations and sends standard HTTP, gRPC, and TCP network requests, verifying responses using basic assertions.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Hurl, Voiden, IntelliJ, VSCode
Concerns raised: Blog link returning 404 errors, IDE/editor fragmentation reducing cross-tool usefulness, GitHub issues appear blank/spam-like, Documentation of config file spec missing, Double effort if verifying against OpenAPI separately
Feature requests: Generate code/clients from specs (OpenAPI, Smithy, GraphQL), Support multiple environments/variables selection simultaneously, Interactive GIFs/demos in README, GraphQL support, Standardized file format across IDEs and editors
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 25 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 26 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 43 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dwm.tmux · hn · 2026-01-24 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE · hn · 2026-03-18 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Deckard, Claude-first terminal manager · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- TermRover · hn · 2026-06-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- jmux · hn · 2026-04-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Nemo · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Gottp · hn · 2026-02-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Vim file browser that runs in separate terminal · hn · 2026-05-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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