Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector

4y5k, have some self-respect. you could have cooked on this for a little bit longer than: yesterday. there is one commit! this is ... quite possibly, but I'm unsure, the first "show hn" with a single commit, lol

I’m a big fan of Hurl for this purpose. It’s just a thin declarative layer over curl.

https://hurl.dev/

Without having looked to deeply into this..why?

https://github.com/darrenburns/posting

Exists, its from on of the co-devs of textual the framework this uses anyway..and more mature I would wager to say.

Is it weird that in 2027 I get excited by apps becoming TUIs?

Would love to see OpenAPI support at least for import

Why do you need to inspect something in to if you have :

1) agents 2) normal ui

Not trying to be critical , just curious why ????

Feels odd to me to put TUI in the about section first, and then a few words later use no electron as a selling point - if I’m using a TUI I’m not expecting electron!

Absolutely unwarranted gatekeeping and bashing in this thread for the most benign reason. I think it looks neat. The API client space definitely needs some new FOSS entries after postman, insomnia, bruno all followed the same free -> freemium bait and switch way too common in dev tooling. Paywalling features that are already or previously implemented is a gross move, and feels especially egregious in the tooling space because developers integrate them as part of their flow and to get a random (albeit important) cog in that flow rugpulled or kneecapped adds undue annoyance and burden in whatever random project you happen to be working on at the time.

Nice work OP, I love these TUI tooling, and we need more options in this space in particular. Hopefully, next time you'll use git from the beginning (for your own organizational sake) but I'm honestly baffled people will disregard a whole FOSS project because of how you chose to make it public. Do better HN populace.

I would have preferred that it not have a UI at all and be more like curl on steroids.

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I mean this is clearly unfinished and was certainly vibe-coded literally yesterday.

> No cloud accounts. No 1GB Electron bloat. 100% Local-first.

This would make me want to use Postman (Electron) over this, since I know that this will absolutely be unmaintained in the a few years.

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