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czhu12
Hi everyone! I built this as a way to quickly create a mock JSON API.

I've often found when starting a new project, usually someone works on the frontend and someone works on the backend.

This creates a state where the frontend developer has no backend to get data from.

Thats what I built this app for: to quickly create a few mock endpoints that can be shared between the team

Its built with Google Cloud Run and DynamoDB which means this can be deployed and hosted entirely for free

marisalopez
I run into the problem of hard coding testing urls all the time, this is nice to seperate that from my app.
wojciech_bulaty
Here is a list of API mocking tools that covers HTTP but also other protocols, including OSS and commercial software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_API_simulation_t...
czhu12
Yeah I've used some similar tools before in the past too. The frustrating thing is that

1. they usually have some free tier + some paid tier, and the free tier is never quite enough to do what you want. 2. They always seem to require account creation.

I'm not super interested in building this tool for large engineering teams, but more for a hackathon type project.