Voiden is an offline-first, git-native API tool built on Markdown - and it very intentionally didn’t start as “let’s build a better Postman”.
Over time, API tooling became heavyweight: cloud dependencies for local work, forced accounts, proprietary formats, and workflows that break the moment you’re offline. Testing a localhost API shouldn’t need an internet connection.
So we asked a simple question: What if an API tool respected how developers already work?
That led to a few core ideas:
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Offline-first, no accounts, no telemetry
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Git as the source of truth
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Specs, tests, and docs living together in Markdown
We opensourced Voiden because extensibility without openness just shifts the bottleneck.
If workflows should be transparent, the tool should be too.
Github : github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
Download here : voiden.md/download
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Or, justuse.org/curl/
baod_rate@programming.dev 36 minutes ago
Or for a more purpose built wrapper (for the same use cases as postman): hurl.dev
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Hate this elitist shit. Just for once try to work with other humans on a tech project that requires collaboration.
Postman strike a balance between technical and user friendly.
RTFM for curl for everyone is alienating for a a lot of people.
dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I’m liking seeing both the opinions side by side. Both sound great.