getman
Getman, Alternative to Postman. A local-first, open-source API client. Requests are YAML files in your repo; browser UI, terminal UI and CI runner in one binary. No account, no cloud.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 78%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- api-client
- api-testing
- cli
- http
- local-first
- postman
- +5 more
Similar launches
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Partial Parsing YAML files and executing HTTP requests is straightforward, but packing an interactive TUI, embedded web UI, and CI test runner into a single high-performance cross-platform binary requires sophisticated systems programming.
What it would actually take: The product is built as a single compiled binary (commonly written in Rust or Go) embedding static web frontend assets, a terminal UI (using ratatui or bubbletea), and an HTTP client engine with expression evaluation. The challenging aspects include supporting complex HTTP protocol specifications (HTTP/2, WebSockets, TLS options), variable interpolation across dependencies, and maintaining sub-second startup times across platforms. Specialized experience in systems programming and embedded local-first architectures is necessary.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #29 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
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