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Yaak
Company blog · yaak.app/blogprogrammingbusiness
Yaak is the company blog at yaak.app, writing about programming and business. Since 2024, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Yaak: A Fun REST, GraphQL, and gRPC Client (Postman Alternative)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Yaak's site for its open-source, local-first desktop API client, a Postman and Insomnia alternative. The site also hosts comparison posts and an open metrics page on subscribers and revenue.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Your requests on your machine, versioned with Git. Interact with any API using the app or agent-friendly CLI.
Most-linked posts?
- Yaak: A Fun REST, GraphQL, and gRPC Client (Postman Alternative)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-03-09
- Yet Another REST Client? – Insomnia Founder Explains Yaak3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-18
- Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
- Why Yaak is not open source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-14
- Yaak is now open source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-10
What Hacker News says?
I started using Yaak after Insomnia and Postman both decided to become user-hostile, it's decent: https://yaak.app/ You'll never guess who makes it.
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on “Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)”Submitted Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client as a story · 153 points
HN discussionBeen using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love getting a little look behind the curtains. [1]: https://yaak.app/open
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on “Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down”Submitted Yaak is now open source as a story · 145 points
HN discussionThis is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
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on “Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down”Submitted Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More as a story · 82 points
HN discussionHappy with https://yaak.app/so far
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on “Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down”Submitted Why Yaak is not open source as a story · 17 points
HN discussionYaak [1] is a local-first desktop API client (Postman alternative) and I've been building MCP workflows around growth lately. I already have one for product that takes in a bunch of sources (feedback, PRs, my own tasks, etc) and makes it trivial for an agent to guide me through the day's tasks. Now I'm doing the same thing for growth by taking in web/social triggers, web analytics, and other signals to spin up marke…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)”Submitted Yaak Is Now Open Source as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI've been working on Yaak [1] which supports gRPC. Websockets are also now live in the current beta. [1] https://yaak.app
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on “Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia”Submitted Yaak: A Fun REST, GraphQL, and gRPC Client (Postman Alternative) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLeaving this here as it's by the creator of Insomnia: https://yaak.app/
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on “Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia”Submitted Yaak as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSounds like you're looking for https://yaak.app/ .
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on “Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia”Submitted Yet Another REST Client? – Insomnia Founder Explains Yaak as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe Insomnia creator has also started https://Yaak.app , which uses Tauri instead of electron iirc.
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on “Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia”Submitted Fair Pricing for a Local-First and Open-Source Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs the creator of another free/offline/git-native API client Yaak ( https://yaak.app ) I just want to say this looks awesome! It's refreshing to see a new API client that isn't just a reimplementation of Postman's interface.
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on “Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client”Submitted The most intuitive desktop API client as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://yaak.app/
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on “Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?”Submitted Why Not Open Source? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's also Yaak ( https://yaak.app ), which is fully open-source & I think may be even better than Bruno. I haven't logged enough time with either to be certain, though -- that's uninformed suspicion and nothing more. https://yaak.app/blog/postman-alternative https://yaak.app/blog/bruno-alternative
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on “The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?”Submitted Yet Another REST Client? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe guy who wrote Insomnia sold it - https://yaak.app/blog/yet-another-api-client and ended up writing a new one, https://yaak.app/
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on “Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown”Submitted Yet Another REST Client? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yaak Desktop adds gRPC support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funding MIT Software with Commercial-Use Binaries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yaak – a minimal app for REST and GraphQL as a story · 1 points
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