Show HN: A Git friendly open API client
Hello HN! My team and I have been using Postman, then moved on to Bruno but we still had issues with how it handled environments, workspaces, pre-request authentication, performance on large collections, etc. I decided to start Awake as a side project with the goal of solving these issues and it quickly became an everyday tool. Cheers, Clement
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2026-11-11 01:30:14.671Z
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Repository: awake-client/awake. Source account: Hello HN! My team and I have been using Postman, then moved on to Bruno but we still had issues with how it handled environments, workspaces, pre-request authentication, performance on large collections, etc. I decided to start Awake as a side project with the goal of solving these issues and it quickly became an everyday tool. Cheers, Clement
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Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 11, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Vaultbase – a self-hosted back end in a single binary” (Show HN, Nov 11, 2026); “Show HN: Movement breaks that only show up while Claude Code is working” (Show HN, Nov 10, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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