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The team made them within 24 hours! I bugged them for about a week with various suggested changes and they kept smashing out banger after banger, also adding in Multiple requests per file and various other fairly large changes at the same time. I no longer need my Postman subscription. Git + Voiden is where it's at.", "context": "", "use_case": "API workflows", "switched_from": "Postman", "story": "Show HN: Voiden \u2013 API Workflows as Markdown Files (Obsidian \u00d7 Curl)"}, {"id": 763248320, "item_id": 47703020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703020", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend checking out Voiden, - all Markdown files and uses composable blocks", "excerpt": "Yeah, I know what you mean. I still use curl sometimes,but for anything beyond a basic GET, the monolithic nature of tools like Postman feels way too heavy. I recommend checking out Voiden, - all Markdown files and uses composable blocks, this makes it easy for quick, version-controlled tests. Good for the \"quick checks\" but also for more advanced workflows (collection runner, scripting etc).", "context": "", "use_case": "quick API checks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What you use for quick API checks?"}, {"id": 761950320, "item_id": 47621895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621895", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Add https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden ( api client with reusable blocks to your list )", "excerpt": "Add https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden ( api client with reusable blocks to your list )", "context": "", "use_case": "API client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["api workflows", "api testing", "quick api checks", "api client"], "compared": [{"slug": "postman", "name": "Postman", "co": 4, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "bruno", "name": "Bruno", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 798927456, "item_id": 49932966, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932966", "by": "nikolasdimi", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Building the MCP for Voiden, the API IDE we open sourced a year ago almost.", "excerpt": "Building the MCP for Voiden, the API IDE we open sourced a year ago almost. Added the ability to test APIs through AI also create MCP. Basically going headless github: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden", "context": "", "use_case": "API testing IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 776623056, "item_id": 48538941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538941", "by": "nikolasdimi", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Released the Voiden Runner so that users can test APIs directly in the terminal.", "excerpt": "I am working on a few things: Voiden: Released the Voiden Runner so that users can test APIs directly in the terminal. https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden ApyHub: https://apyhub.com/ working to onboard a few more API providers. Working to rationalize the terms for new APIs added in the catalog. I am also working to streamline how all APIs are certified and monitored.", "context": "", "use_case": "API testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 766784417, "item_id": 47924026, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924026", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I think we can have this as a plugin in https://voiden.md/", "excerpt": "Wow I love this ! I think we can have this as a plugin in https://voiden.md/", "context": "", "use_case": "plugin host for Quarkdown", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quarkdown \u2013 Markdown with Superpowers"}, {"id": 766398752, "item_id": 47899922, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899922", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I too am building something similar on markdown which versions with git but for a completely different use case : https://voiden.md/", "excerpt": "I love that so many people are building with markdown ! But also would like to understand how markdown helps in durability - if I understand correctly markdown has a edge over other formats for LLMs. Also I too am building something similar on markdown which versions with git but for a completely different use case : https://voiden.md/", "context": "builder", "use_case": "markdown with git versioning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"}, {"id": 766156848, "item_id": 47884803, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884803", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We kind of have used the exact philosophy in https://voiden.md/ - offline-first, file based and support for git.", "excerpt": "I love how you have used markdown here ! We kind of have used the exact philosophy in https://voiden.md/ - offline-first, file based and support for git. This is exactly the format agents will use pretty well. We have done this for APIs. We are open source too. Take a look here : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden", "context": "", "use_case": "file-based API tooling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Tolaria \u2013 open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"}, {"id": 764164080, "item_id": 47760255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760255", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Something I built on markdown : https://voiden.md/", "excerpt": "I love how you approached this with markdown ! I guess the markdown approach really has a advantage over others. PS : Something I built on markdown : https://voiden.md/", "context": "", "use_case": "Markdown-based tool", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Continual Learning with .md"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702132", "title": "Ask HN: What you use for quick API checks?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927188", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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The team made them within 24 hours! I bugged them for about a week with various suggested changes and they kept smashing out banger after banger, also adding in Multiple requests per file and various other fairly large changes at the same time. I no longer need my Postman subscription. Git + Voiden is where it's at.", "context": "", "use_case": "API workflows", "switched_from": "Postman", "story": "Show HN: Voiden \u2013 API Workflows as Markdown Files (Obsidian \u00d7 Curl)"}, {"id": 763340384, "item_id": 47708774, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708774", "by": "igtumt", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "That looks interesting, I like the Markdown idea.", "excerpt": "That looks interesting, I like the Markdown idea. I usually try to avoid installing tools just for quick checks, so I tend to prefer things that work instantly without setup. Do you use it more for repeatable workflows, or also for quick \u201ccheck and move on\u201d stuff?", "context": "", "use_case": "API testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What you use for quick API checks?"}, {"id": 763248320, "item_id": 47703020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703020", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend checking out Voiden, - all Markdown files and uses composable blocks", "excerpt": "Yeah, I know what you mean. I still use curl sometimes,but for anything beyond a basic GET, the monolithic nature of tools like Postman feels way too heavy. I recommend checking out Voiden, - all Markdown files and uses composable blocks, this makes it easy for quick, version-controlled tests. Good for the \"quick checks\" but also for more advanced workflows (collection runner, scripting etc).", "context": "", "use_case": "quick API checks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What you use for quick API checks?"}, {"id": 761950320, "item_id": 47621895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621895", "by": "dhruv3006", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Add https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden ( api client with reusable blocks to your list )", "excerpt": "Add https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden ( api client with reusable blocks to your list )", "context": "", "use_case": "API client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?"}]}