Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by Ugyen_Tech » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 8:39 AM UTC

After 6 months integrating AI voice agents with old systems, I got tired of fighting SOAP from 2003. Built Hopeless to turn 6-month integrations into 2 weeks. ~70% token reduction. Works with any legacy system.

Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks
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Re: Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by farseer » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 9:22 AM UTC

I like your flexible pricing structure, that is refreshing. Just the other day I wanted to try out a SaaS and the minimum signup was for 12 months.

Re: Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by hardwaresofton » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 9:30 AM UTC

So incredibly close to “SOAPlessAPI.com”

Re: Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by Ugyen_Tech » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

farseer wrote: post #2

I like your flexible pricing structure, that is refreshing. Just the other day I wanted to try out a SaaS and the minimum signup was for 12 months.

Thanks, would like to try ours? haha.. its currently free... Become The first official user of Hopeless.

Re: Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by Ugyen_Tech » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 9:41 PM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #3

So incredibly close to “SOAPlessAPI.com”

haha now thats something interesting name.. by the way we have some background story behind this name Hopeless, we are going under EF fall25 cohort and we tired 17 ideas and nothing work out, everyone in our batch doing good and we are like behind so we were like hopeless at that point this idea pop up and we are facing this problem when we are working with some client before so there we started work this idea. so as memories we decided to give name Hopeless, but guess this is also not working, its been 3 days after launch and 0 signup haha :)

Re: Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by hardwaresofton » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC

Ugyen_Tech wrote: post #5

hardwaresofton wrote: post #3

So incredibly close to “SOAPlessAPI.com”

haha now thats something interesting name.. by the way we have some background story behind this name Hopeless, we are going under EF fall25 cohort and we tired 17 ideas and nothing work out, everyone in our batch doing good and we are like behind so we were like hopeless at that point this idea pop up and we are facing this problem when we are working with some client before so there we started work this idea. so as…

A bit late but hopefully you find more users soon — 3 days is still early!

Re: Show HN: I built middleware to connect legacy SOAP APIs to AI agents in 2 weeks

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Post by Ugyen_Tech » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 10:26 PM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #6

Ugyen_Tech wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha now thats something interesting name.. by the way we have some background story behind this name Hopeless, we are going under EF fall25 cohort and we tired 17 ideas and nothing work out, everyone in our batch doing good and we are like behind so we were like hopeless at that point this idea pop up and we are facing this problem when we are working with some client before so there we started work this idea. so as…

A bit late but hopefully you find more users soon — 3 days is still early!

thank you so much.. :)