Ghostman - Fast keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector
Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector
Ghostman is a terminal-based API client and webhook inspector built for developers who value speed and privacy. Unlike Postman and Insomnia, it launches in under 200ms, uses no cloud accounts, and skips the 1GB Electron overhead. All collections live as plain YAML in .ghostman/collections.yaml, so you can commit them to Git alongside your code. Hit Ctrl+W to spin up an ephemeral webhook receiver on port 9090 and catch live callbacks from Stripe, GitHub, or Shopify right on screen. With full keyboard navigation, real-time latency telemetry, and pretty JSON formatting, Ghostman keeps your entire API workflow inside the terminal.
No cloud accounts. No 1GB Electron bloat. 100% Local-first.
- grimgrin
4y5k, have some self-respect. you could have cooked on this for a little bit longer than: yesterday. there is one commit! this is ... quite possibly, but I'm unsure, the first "show hn" with a single commit, lol
- burnoutdv
Without having looked to deeply into this..why?
https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Exists, its from on of the co-devs of textual the framework this uses anyway..and more mature I would wager to say.
- theCodeStig
I’m a big fan of Hurl for this purpose. It’s just a thin declarative layer over curl.
- booi
Is it weird that in 2027 I get excited by apps becoming TUIs?
Would love to see OpenAPI support at least for import
- maxdo
Why do you need to inspect something in to if you have :
1) agents
2) normal ui
Not trying to be critical , just curious why ????