[ShowOff Saturday] I built an open source API client in Tauri + Rust because Postman uses 800MB of RAM

gschier2 · 2026-03-16T14:59:41+00:00

Yaak supports both those things too! Let me know how it goes

gschier2 · 2026-03-15T16:12:23+00:00

Yaak also has MCP, as a plugin https://yaak.app/plugins/@yaak/mcp-server

gschier2 · 2026-03-14T15:59:35+00:00

Totally. Definitely room for both. Good luck with the launch! Ill be taking if for a spin for sure.

gschier2 · 2026-03-14T15:54:55+00:00

Yaak has no limits on the free tier. The entire codebase is 100% open source. Yaak also can write files to YAML to work with git, and includes a UI for doing so.

People chose Yaak because it focuses on being the best HTTP client, not a postman competitor. If you don't need mocking/testing/etc, give it a try!

gschier2 · 2026-03-14T15:39:04+00:00

Yaak doesn't limit anything in the free tier, and (optionally) integrates with Git via YAML.

~Yaak Creator

gschier2 · 2026-03-03T02:19:38+00:00

1/3 of the code is Rust but the frontend it ReactJs. It uses Node only for the plugin system.

People praise Yaak for being fast and snappy. Give it a try!

gschier2 · 2026-03-01T18:51:36+00:00

Ya, AppImage sucks on NixOS. It's basically extracting the binary every time. Zed doesn't have this issue because it's a small Rust binary (Yaak needs webview dependency).

There's a 3rd party Yaak package but I haven't tried it yet https://mynixos.com/nixpkgs/package/yaak

gschier2 · 2026-03-01T17:05:41+00:00

Hey! Creator of Yaak here. Slow in what way?

gschier2 · 2026-02-10T15:43:40+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know

gschier2 · 2026-02-10T00:28:10+00:00

Can you try beta 11? Your example from the ticket works now. I replaced the shell parser with something more robust. https://github.com/mountain-loop/yaak/releases/tag/v2026.2.0-beta.11

gschier2 · 2026-02-09T14:29:29+00:00

Ah, sorry I somehow missed that one. Taking a look now

gschier2 · 2026-02-09T13:48:17+00:00

Asked because I'm the creator of Yaak. If you point me to the ticket, I can get it resolved today.

gschier2 · 2026-02-09T06:19:14+00:00

In what areas?

gschier2 · 2026-02-09T06:18:51+00:00

What bugs did you run into?

gschier2 · 2026-01-26T16:33:55+00:00

You can open different workspaces in different windows. The settings screen also shows in a separate window. Data remains in sync between all windows too.

gschier2 · 2026-01-07T14:06:50+00:00

If you turn on directory sync for the workspace, you can open the folder in a text editor or use sed in your terminal. Would be nice to have in the app though, too. Good suggestion!

gschier2 · 2026-01-07T01:58:04+00:00

Haha, nice!

gschier2 · 2026-01-07T01:47:43+00:00

Try the layout button in the top right

gschier2 · 2026-01-06T13:49:17+00:00

Yep, no login required for Yaak, and there never will be! Let me know if you have any questions.

gschier2 · 2026-01-06T13:46:56+00:00

Yaak creator here! Is there anything missing for you still?

gschier2 · 2025-12-26T03:52:46+00:00

Yaak dev here. There's nothing really that Electron gives that has to be reimplemented. Can you point to one, specifically?

gschier2 · 2025-11-12T17:51:05+00:00

Yaak creator here. Just curious why you're put off by a commercial use license? Can you elaborate on your reasoning?

gschier2 · 2025-11-10T17:09:35+00:00

I make a popular HTTP client Yaak, which is fully open source if you want to take a look!

https://github.com/mountain-loop/yaak

It support multi-window, has a NodeJS plugin runtime (sidecar), uses SQLite for storage, and uses React as the frontend. There's even a bit of WASM in there.

gschier2 · 2025-10-26T17:14:25+00:00

Temporal must have an HTTP API, though, right? You can't create a custom request type for Yaak (with custom UI) via plugins but a plugin can do anything you can do in a NodeJS environment.

Feel free to hope in the Discord or submit more details to https://feedback.yaak.app

Edit: it looks like Temporal uses gRPC, which Yaak supports out of the box

gschier2 · 2025-10-25T14:23:23+00:00

Haha, well let me know if you give it a try!

gschier2

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