Wow, Yaak is now #4 result for "postman alternative"

Good news? Larger companies are adopting Bad news? Spent all day debugging headless Windows installs 🫠

Starting to hate Rust

DR 49! Halfway to the top 🚀

Adding a JSON Schema command to the CLI to assist agents in creating/updating data models. This even includes sub-schemas defined by plugins (eg. OAuth 2).

CLI almost ready to ship ✨

Transitioning Yaak to a cli-first app and AM LOVING IT

The Codex Kool-Aid tastes way better

node_modules looks small next to Rust's `target` folder, damn

Finally rebooting this old project 👀

wtf Claude 😂

Heck ya, I got openpanel.dev deploying as a 1-click template. - Click "Deploy" - Wait 2 minutes - Sign in to create an account - Start tracking ✨ Try it out at railway.com/deploy/open... 👈🏼

Finally put the shop/swag store link in Yaak's footer. Any recommendations on where else to link if I actually want to tell people about it? Thinking maybe at the bottom of each changelog? And maybe even the main app menu.

Just got the best new feedback submission 🫶🏼

You can finally upload an avatar and change your name/email from your Yaak profile page ✨

Ain't nothing better than product validation ✨

Past me: Git won't be that hard Present me: 😭😭😭 So many little edge cases

Thanks y'all for spreading the love! It really goes a long way 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Just set up OpenPanel.dev (self-hosted on @railway.com) and it's pretty slick! Definitely has some bugs and kinks to work out, but it's getting the job done for now.

January recap for @YaakApp 💹 MRR: $2,067 (+10%) 💰 Revenue: $2304 (-190%) 💼 Subscribers: 360 (+8%) January turned out to be a good month even with the slow holiday start. I have both 60-seat and 80-seat teams wanting deals, so hopefully those go through! 🚀

k, much better on mobile 👇🏼

Trying to better showcase the power of Yaak on the landing page by adding short auto-playing videos

Whenever I decide to start posting more about Yaak again, revenue goes up. Why do I have to keep learning this lesson?

Lobsters is a surprisingly good network for posting. It's nowhere near HN traffic but it's way easier to get noticed.

AI coding feels great now because we're all crushing the giant backlog of trivial crap we were never going to get to.

You're no longer locked into my own hotkey preferences 🌠

New Stats view? 👀

He's comin' for my job

New favorite thing is doing planning and initial implementation on my dog walk---using my voice to control my local machine. I get home, do a few tests and tweaks, then ship.

How many devs out there with non-technical bosses just doing like 3 minutes of work per day now, for the same pay?

Me: Hey Claude, here's my SVG for the page Claude: I added it Me: WHY DID YOU REMOVE THE EYES?

So much insight into your requests now 🤯 - Full request headers/body - "curl -v" style timeline - Redirect chain and behavior - DNS resolution and lookup times - Sent/received cookies - Settings used for request

Added a simple diff viewer 👇🏼

Would love to see more OSS use @YaakApp's model 👨🏼‍💻 Open Source: - Full source under MIT - Build/run source however you want 📦 Prebuilt, downloaded binaries: - Free for personal use - Paid license for commercial use + support

Alright, starting to work on porting all my landing page screenshots to manually-drawn SVGs (syncs with website theme) First one done in ~10 minutes thanks to the Figma components (use auto-layout) I had already made ✨

Before Claude, I wouldn't have ever prioritized such a niche feature. But I wanted it for myself, so I got it done!

So long my dear friend 🙏🏼

HECK YES, $2k MRR! Excited to get a fully open-source (MIT) project to sustainable revenue 🚀💰

New Git improvements (eg. clone) are live! yaak.app/changelog/2...

Can't believe it took this long to add 🙈

Okay @railway.com, it's 2026... It's time for you (or Claude) to finally add image uploads to the dashboard? Profile photos, project/service/group icons, etc..

Git menu feels way better now 👌

It's a bit of a pain having a hand-crafter SVG (using Figma) instead of a PNG screenshot, but I just love having it (and the entire website) adapt to the theme. It was actually really tricky to implement 👇🏼

If LLMs get any faster, I'm not gonna have any time to Tweet

Yep, motion designers are in trouble

I really suck at marketing. Any tips?

Vibe-coded some docs 👇🏼 - Import script using Featurebase API - Custom YAML+MD data structure - Typesense search - Copy-as-markdown - Table of contents - Added 20+ new docs Claude did 99% of it (it still sucks at design details) yaak.app/docs 👈🏼

My master plan of an "optional" commercial use license is coming together! Individual subscriptions are declining as Yaak exits the early-adopter stage, but in the past week I've received two inquiries for a 60-seat org and 80-seat org 🤯 Time to break free of this plateau!

As an indie, it's not the lows that are tough. It's the highs. After years of grinding, the best you can hope for is a well-intentioned "nice job."

The only benefit of LLM TUIs seems to be that you can use them over SSH? Seems worse in every way.