Every other API-testing tool seems to have evolved into a bloated, cloud-first, subscription-based "service" (Yes, I'm looking at you, Postman, Paw/RapidAPI, etc), and I'd been looking for just this type of thing when I stumbled across this project a few months ago. Finally, somebody gets it!
It works different, and it may still have a few rough edges, but now every developer with access to our projects has access to the relevant APIs and instructions on how best to use them -- while the credentials remain safely off the cloud and on their own machines.
It's been exhilarating to finally have full testing and documentation right in our code bases, and the fact that it's now open source means our team can fully embrace Voiden without fear of once again having the rug pulled out from under its feet.
Thanks for going this route! I predict Voiden is going to be the sleeper hit for developers this year.
I'm all for more text-based API docs tools, though, and from the README, Resterm does look well thought out and certainly capable! But it gave me flashbacks to my first days trying to learn Emacs.
You're right, I don't post much here (or anywhere these days, really), and knee-jerk accusations like this are part of the reason. But sometimes I like to share things I find useful with other developers. I certainly don't make a living doing so, though.
Enjoy your day!
Yeah, that seems like pertinent information that'd make your original post a lot more transparent. You're obviously invested in this project to some degree even if it's not financial.
And you wonder why I haven't commented here in the past eight years.
On a product note, I don't think the logo matches the name at all.
The logo neither says "voids" nor "API tool". It is a blocky infinity symbol that to me means nothing in-context. Also the duotone and slight asymmetry (of a normally symmetric symbol) gives hints of duality/gemini, which also means nothing to me in the context of what the tool is and the name that it has.
Overall, it appears this tool is in the same space as Postman, Insomina, etc. which has been plagued with rug-pulls and everything I've seen says it's likely to happen here too.
How so? Even without the tool itself, you've still got a collection of useful markdown files that perfectly describe your APIS. They're not magic nor proprietary, and now this tool makes them even more useful: If the developers are trying to rip anybody off, they're doing a terrible job.
This tool is for those who DON'T want to be locked into yet another cloud service: Its power lies in the formatted Markdown files which can be thought of us as a collection of souped-up `curl` statements that you may already be collecting anyway. This just lets you use them without copying and pasting them into yet another proprietary tool or platform -- and now that it's open-sourced, perhaps we'll see its magic spread to other tools, too. This format-over-product concept is ideal for development teams that already keep their projects in git repositories.
By open-sourcing the project, the creators have made the rug-pull scenario all but impossible (which is the point of today's announcement, I think). Regardless, it's in the wild now, and there's no pricing page because the tool is free and open source.
> there's no pricing page because the tool is free and open source.
Okay, then why is there a "Product" item at the top and a "real talk" (testimonials) page that has "featured" posts? It seems like the creators had something else in mind when creating this tool and it wasn't an altruistic open source tool.