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

20 points 4yk5 1 day ago 13 comments

booi 1 hour ago | parent

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

Would love to see OpenAPI support at least for import

jagged-chisel 1 hour ago | parent

Welcome, future person! Please give us good news about what will transpire since many of us are currently stuck on Halloween 2026. Thanks!

OroPla 4 minutes ago | parent

I'm excited for CLI/TUI since 2016. It's just easier to use and automate. Other than a web browser, all the software I spend significant time in are CLI/TUIs. This includes most image editing.

basecalled 1 hour ago | parent

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!

LelouBil 9 minutes ago | parent

[delayed]

burnoutdv 57 minutes ago | parent

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.

Arkada 10 minutes ago | parent

Posting works well for making outbound HTTP requests; the only part it doesn't handle by default is locally capturing and replaying webhooks.

While testing TradingView alerts, exchange execution callback handlers, or cryptocurrency payment webhooks for our trading software, we always find ourselves running `posting` (or `curl`) in one terminal window while having an additional tunneling/receiving script running in another one just to catch and retransmit the tricky JSON payloads.

rvz 53 minutes ago | parent

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.

francislavoie 45 minutes ago | parent

I don't see it the same way. People are building these things for themselves because it solves a specific problem they have, and that means it's crafted just to their liking. And it will only become easier to maintain these because of LLMs constantly advancing (for now). So if this is also a match for what you want out of a tool, then you can easily adopt it, or even fork it to your own liking. If it's not a fit for you, that's fine, there are plenty other options that may be.

grimgrin 33 minutes ago | parent

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

indigodaddy 8 minutes ago | parent

Why does it matter. It's pretty normal to do a bunch of dev locally and then at some point create a public gh repo and then push

verdverm 3 minutes ago | parent

back at peak Slop HN, there were a ton of these, the fastest I recall was a few minutes from first commit time to Slop HN time