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Probe

Native API client for humans and agents

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Probe is a fast, native, local-first API client for HTTP, GraphQL, and WebSocket APIs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Use one OpenCollection workspace across desktop, CLI, CI, and coding agents — without accounts, cloud workspaces, Electron, or WebViews.

PH · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views

Niche: software development environments · 118 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • API
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial The basic API testing interface is vibe-codeable, but creating a truly native multi-platform desktop client (non-Electron/non-WebView) with CLI parity and custom WebSocket/GraphQL protocol implementations requires systems programming expertise.

What it would actually take: This requires a native UI stack (e.g., Rust with Slint/Tauri/Iced or C++/Qt) paired with high-performance networking libraries (hyper/reqwest, tungstenite) to achieve zero-WebView overhead. The hard parts include writing a high-fidelity native HTTP/GraphQL/WebSocket execution engine, seamless cross-platform desktop integration, and a unified CLI/CI runner using a custom specification (OpenCollection). Systems programming and native desktop GUI experience are required.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 86 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #12 of 87 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Open Investigator · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • ProbeLab · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Bifurc · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • ProbeMyAgent · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Anything API · hn · 2026-03-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • komari-probe · github · 2026-09-17 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • API Workbench · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • Telegraph REST API Client · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37

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