Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files
Details
- External ID
- 48763850
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files
- Website domain
- gopherglide.dev
- Launched
- July 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Model Context Protocol developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- api testing tool for ide
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Parsing standard .http files and replaying HTTP requests to simulate traffic can be implemented in a few hundred lines of Go, Node, or Python with standard networking libraries.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 252 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #173 of 253 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.
- Basalt · hn · 2026-03-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Adapt, Automatically Turns Files into REST APIs, Web UI, and MCP · hn · 2026-08-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Reverse-engineer any site's API from inside the browser · hn · 2026-03-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies · hn · 2026-08-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HTTP-nu · hn · 2026-02-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Karada.ai · hn · 2026-09-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Decoy · hn · 2026-02-26 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Rust HTTP library modeled after Go but 2-3x faster · hn · 2026-04-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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