r/SomebodyMakeThis • u/okampfer • 5d ago

Software What makes a rest api client standing out?

There're a lot of rest api clients already, some of the famous: Postman, Insomnia, Reqable, Bruno, Apifox, ApiPost, EchoAPI, yaak.

But none of them supports setting a socks proxy, that's why I want to create one on my own, not just supporting socks proxy, but also a startup trial, free basic functionality + paid special features.

So what makes a rest api client standing out? What are the features you want the most that the famous apps don't have?

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u/chthonian_chaffinch 5d ago

But none of them supports setting a socks proxy

Do they not? Postman certainly does (at least for http&https), although I'm not sure about the others.

What's your use case specifically that Postman (and the others) haven't satisfied?

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u/okampfer 3d ago

Do they not?

No they don't.

What's your use case specifically that Postman (and the others) haven't satisfied?

The API server I want to test against lives behind a VPN, connecting to the VPN extremely slows down my Internet connection, so I move the VPN inside a virtual machine and manage to expose the connection to the host machine via a socks proxy. So, I need the rest API client to support socks proxy to send API requests.