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Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More

by nbrempel on 2/19/25, 8:52 PM with 21 comments

• by robinhood on 2/20/25, 3:55 AM

  I love everything about Yaak. How and why it was born. The transparency of the author. The simplicity of the tool. I really hope the user base grows in the future.

• by literallyroy on 2/25/25, 3:36 PM

  So awesome. I love the pricing model, I’ve seen it before for MacOS apps where they are free to build yourself, but have a cost for convenience if you want it on the App Store. How is it working for you so far?

• by rrgok on 2/20/25, 3:29 PM

  I'm gonna say it, at the risk of begin downvoted to hell, what the is target developer of this kind of HTTP clients? This is the second client I see in a single day and I'm having hard time understanding these apps/utility.

  It is not difficult to make HTTP request, there is no need to pay a client to save those requests. What I would gladly pay is a client that makes those requests testable and repeatable in an ergonomic way. HURL come close, but its testing language is quite limited and disappointing.

  I'm sorry for being harsh, but the goal should not be making HTTP requests easy. The goal should be making HTTP requests easily testable in an automatic way. That's why I still use Laravel Guzzle, I write requests and test them in programmatic way with a proper testing framework.

• by gschier on 2/20/25, 1:01 AM

  Creator of Yaak here. Let me know if you have any questions!

• by LorenzoGood on 2/20/25, 6:30 AM

  Are the analytics opt in or out?