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Yep! Fun fact, I made Insomnia too, and started over with Yaak after I sold it and watched it go down the same path. Yaak was my attempt at making sure it doesn't happen again.

I created https://yaak.app because of things like this, but honestly you can really just vibe code your own these days.

Yaak creator here! The commercial-use license is my best attempt at aligning incentives between me and the user, while still funding the project's future.

FYI the license terms only apply to the prebuilt binaries. You can build and run from source for any use (including commercial), for free.

Happy to answer any questions as well.

Thanks, glad you like it!

Yaak [1] is a local-first desktop API client (Postman alternative) and I've been building MCP workflows around growth lately.

I already have one for product that takes in a bunch of sources (feedback, PRs, my own tasks, etc) and makes it trivial for an agent to guide me through the day's tasks. Now I'm doing the same thing for growth by taking in web/social triggers, web analytics, and other signals to spin up marketing tasks. We'll see how it goes!

[1] https://yaak.app

Linux users don't pay for anything anyway

That'll do it. That config is used for the production build of Yaak that's downloadable from the website. Just running "tauri build" or "npm run app-build" is what you want.

How are you running it? The code for the license management and badge are not included by default when running "npm start" or "npm run app-build".

And yes, you can indeed run the OSS yourself for commercial purposes.

Yep, that's what the fallback is for

Faster, smoother, GRPC, plugins, themes, fully open source, no telemetry,...

Yep, no VC! Though I have invested 2 years of my own living expenses into it, trying to make it work.

Ya, it's so funny to be going up against a 1000+ person company as a solo dev!

I currently direct these people to sponsor on GitHub

I've already sold once, and regretted it. I'm aiming to call Yaak "done" in the next few years and use it to fund my* retirement. See you there

No way. Queue the gif!

This is my retirement project. I'd like to call it "done" within 2 years

Hey! Who's this?

Non-competes expire

How so? It's completely open source and doesn't rely on cloud accounts or servers. It's also just me. Postman has 1000 employees and $200M+ in funding

My runway reaches infinity around $10k MRR so I'll likely do a post around then. Currently 11% of the way there!

It's a bit lower on the priority list, but it'll get there https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub

Enjoy!

No plans for VSCode integration, no. It's only great because it's designed for a very specific use case and environment.

I'm not quite sure why Yaak wouldn't work in this case. It it because your running server wouldn't be accessible to Yaak, running on your system?

The commercial license terms only apply to the prebuilt binaries. You can build and run the OSS version for whatever purpose you'd like. Check the last FAQ on the pricing page

This is a conscious bet I'm making.

Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries).

The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!

You get a 30-day trial

Nice! Yep, trying to be as open and accessible as possible since so much of the industry is the opposite.

Yaak does this out of the box. It pops open a browser window and intercepts any redirect. And auto refresh is built in as well.

I was so sad to see its decline after I left. Had to make it right.