This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git.
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#22Happy with https://yaak.app/so far
Hey, I'm the creator of Yaak! Let me know how it could be even better :)
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#23This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
was going to say "what makes this better than Insomnia" before i saw this!
> Having created and sold Insomnia in 2019
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#25How many other offline and online things failed unexpectedly due to the aws outage?
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#26I think for the most part everyone has accepted that Postman grew into a monster that bloated with features and presumably that comes with online dependence.
If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish you give up your monopoly on fisheries. It used to considered vile that drug dealers tried to hook their users and force dependence... turns out that they were just ahead of the curve.
That's funny 8-)
It brought to mind this quote:
“It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,”
From a recent article that came through the feed:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-li...
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#28This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
I fell in love with Insomnia pre-acquisition so I'm thrilled to see it has a spiritual successor. Good on you Greg.
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#29This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
I fell in love with Insomnia pre-acquisition so I'm thrilled to see it has a spiritual successor. Good on you Greg.
I was so sad to see its decline after I left. Had to make it right.
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#30Yeah they really turned their product into over-complicated garbage instead of focusing on doing one thing well.