I Built a Zero-Login Postman Alternative in 5 Weeks. My Cofounder Is an AI and I Work Long Shifts.

I started this because I wanted to know if the hype was real. Not the AI hype specifically. The whole thing — the idea that someone without a CS degree, without a team, without anyone around them w...

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I Built a Zero-Login Postman Alternative in 5 Weeks. My Cofounder Is an AI and I Work Long Shifts.

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I started this because I wanted to know if the hype was real. Not the AI hype specifically. The whole thing — the idea that someone without a CS degree, without a team, without anyone around them who even knows what Claude.ai is, could build something real on weekends. I work long demanding shifts at a job that has nothing to do with software. My coworkers don't know what an API is. I barely knew what one was when I started. Five weeks later I have a live product with Stripe payments, a Pro tier, and an AI that generates production-ready API requests from plain English. I'm still not entirely sure what I'd use it for in my day job. But I know the journey was worth it. If you can't learn, you're done. Why This Exists One night I needed to test an API endpoint. I opened Postman. It asked me to create an account. Then download a desktop app. Then set up a workspace. Then pick a team plan. I just wanted to send one POST request. I thought: somebody should build the version of this that jus

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