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nikolasdimi

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  • TIL that kung fu (or gongfu) is not a martial art but means "proficiency, aptitude, or mastery" thats acquired over long, rigorous training.

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  • True. Background of the story of how I learnt is in my tai chi class where I asked the teacher if they also do king fu there. And they told me that well tai chi is also part of kung fu.

  • The night brings Charlie

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  • I have added the link! It's free to watch

  • Promoting your API tool - Guide for founders on Reddit

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  • wow wow thanks! please spread the word!

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • yes in Voiden everything is a block though.

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • https://voiden.md/comparison

    depends on what you want to focus on - for example I like the reusable blocks and the programmable interface + the idea of community plugins that extend the tool!

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • awesome, thanks for sharing.

    feel free to play around and tell me what you thought - especially around the reusable blocks: most devs we talk with consider this to be the most "different" thing and what is more different than other clients.. For me its this one too + the plain text files all the way from specs, tests, docs, context etc...

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • Hey :) Voiden is not a rich text editor (non offense to rich text editors). It is executable API docs: requests, docs, and explanations that all live in Markdown… and actually run. (Yes, your docs that do stuff). As far as I know it is the first tool to collapse design, testing, and documentation into one file, one format, one workflow. If you know another tool that does this, I genuinely want to hear about it (definitely not trying to be cocky, just curious :)

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  • Yaak has some ideas and concepts that I like a lot. One thing that is similar with Voiden is that they are extensible through plugins. This way the core can stay lean and new functionality can be added up without bloating the app.

  • Promoting your API tool - Guide for founders on Reddit

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  • hey - thats great :) Happy you downloaded it :) curious to hear your feedback - I will send you a discord link as a message so its not seen as spamming.

    Let me see if I understand your question: you mean how Voiden would look when its more mature?

    What I am most excited about is that Voiden already does a few things differently from most API tools. Reusable blocks, plain-text everything, and the ability to go from testing to docs to publishing from a single source are already working and shaping how teams can work in a more consistent way.

    There is still a lot ahead (for example I want to see what kind of plugins people come up with for the tool, or how AI will eventually play a bigger role) but the principles of Voiden (reusability, composability, plain text, collaboration through git, single source of truth etc.) are the ideas I believe will define and set a new tone/standard of how API tools should be.

  • Promoting your API tool - Guide for founders on Reddit

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  • I thought no one would ask :) just open sourced it a few weeks ago. But I promise I will never pay someone to praise it pretending to be a developer.

    https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

  • Modern API tools

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  • haha I dont know how to take this

  • Open Source, Incentives, and Why 'Monetize Later' Often Backfires

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  • yeah, do agree with part of it. Without HashiCorp Terraform, we probably wouldn’t have OpenTofu at least not in the form it exists today. In that sense, VC money did indeed help bootstrap something that eventually became broader open infrastructure.

    You could argue the same happened with Elasticsearch leading to OpenSearch, or Redis eventually leading to Valkey.

    So yes, venture funding can indeed accelerate the creation of useful open ecosystems.

    The tension I am pointing to is more about the transition phase. When a project grows under the assumption of being open community infrastructure and then the business incentives shift later, it tends to create friction: license changes, forks, community distrust, etc.

    Forks are actually a feature of open source: they are like the ecosystem’s pressure valve. (But they also show that the incentives between companies and communities drifted apart at some point.)

    So I would frame it less as “VC-funded open source is bad” and more as: "VC-backed projects often bootstrap great ecosystems, but the sustainability model tends to get figured out later, and that’s where things get messy."

    In some cases we end up with something great like OpenTofu. In others we end up with fragmentation and uncertainty. Both can happen.

  • Modern API tools

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  • haha indeed - modern has this "blinking lights" connotation. something that is shiny.

    True story - once, in primary school, I went to a halloween party, where all the boys were dressed as batman and all the girls as macarena (guess my age). The host of the party was maybe the only one not dressed as batman.

    He was wearing some weird jell in the hair, like a punk kind of thing, with a lot of strass, stars all over his body, some heart or thunder shaped big mirror glasses, a shiny jacket and the best looking blue mocasines I have ever seen. He also had a big radio antenna (??) coming through his nylon electric yellow vest.

    I asked him: what are you dressed as? and he replied: "Modern".

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  • true as well

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  • true :) I heard this actually even from ex insomnia folks - the direction could have been much different.

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    • bruno does have a paywall last time I checked :) but the point is not to have tool debates :) my main point is around overall philosophies and ways that new things are like older things with a small twist.

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  • yes, sorry for the confusion - yes I mean API Client tool - postman, insomnia etc. etc.

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  • from where?