Hey all,

Yesterday there was a postman outage again. This is a problem of API tools going SaaS and adding everything behind a wall, their own format and behind paywalls.

Built Voiden internally first (working with 100s of new APIs every month so needed something simple to test them) but then it evolved into something that I think was worth sharing. A few principles that Voiden is built on:

• Free, Offline, Git native, no accounts, no telemetry

• Everything (API specs, tests, docs, context etc) all live plain executable text (markdown).

• API requests can be composed (or decomposed) with blocks (endpoints, params, auth etc). These blocks can be used, reused, replaced and versioned, just like code.

• Plugins for things that are not essential. Wanted to avoid bloating it so things like GRPC, Websockets, scripting etc are all plugins that you can install or remove based on your needs.

• Collaboration, versioning etc all happen where devs already live: Git.

• available on windows, mac, linux

Link to the repo here: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

try the tool: https://voiden.md/download

migrate from postman: https://docs.voiden.md/docs/getting-started-section/getting-started/postman-import

If you work with APIs, it would be great if you give this a try and share your thoughts!

Nikolas