Decoy
A native Mac app for mocking HTTP endpoints locally
Details
- External ID
- 47170320
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Decoy
- Website domain
- decoy-app.com
- Launched
- Feb. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38207547169811323
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mock http endpoints locally
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local HTTP mock server built with SwiftUI, Network.framework, and SQLite is a straightforward developer tool that modern AI coding agents can generate reliably.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Mockoon, Docker, Postman
Concerns raised: Mockoon is open source and more mature, Mockoon has more features (online mocks, proxies), Mockoon tracks users even without account, Mac-only limitation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 447 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #284 of 448 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.
- File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies · hn · 2026-08-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Turbo · hn · 2026-07-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- LMMOCK · github · 2026-09-20 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- EchoRelay · hn · 2026-06-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- prism · github · 2026-09-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- reburp · github · 2026-09-10 · 89 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- TesterArmy: Test your app with natural language · yc · 2026-05-26 · 95 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files · hn · 2026-07-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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