Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files
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HN · launched Jul 2, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: api testing and mocking tools · 85 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 587 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #419 of 588 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.
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- HTTP-nu · hn · 2026-02-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Karada.ai · hn · 2026-09-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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