Postman started as a Chrome extension.

One developer, scratching his own itch. No accounts. No pricing tiers. No "upgrade to unlock collections." Just a clean tool that let you hit endpoints and see what came back.

That was 2012.

Fast forward to now — you open Postman and the first thing it asks for is an account. Then it wants you to sync to the cloud. Then it nudges you toward a team plan. The tool that used to just work now needs to know who you are before it lets you do anything.

I get it. Companies need to make money. But somewhere between the Chrome extension and the enterprise sales deck, Postman stopped being for developers and started being for procurement teams.

So I built Reqit.

What Reqit is:

A desktop API client. Local-first. Offline-first. No account required. Zero telemetry. Your collections are plain JSON files sitting on your machine — you can read them, version them, move them, delete them. No vendor lock-in.

Built with Go, Wails v2, React, and TypeScript.…