Easy API endpoint load testing without breaking the bank

Thanks so much for hunting @chrismessina!

Hello all of you beautiful makers 👋 Today I'm excited to announce Clobbr - an app to load & speed test your API with ease.

🎁 To celebrate all of you fantastic people of ProductHunt, the app will be discounted 50% during the launch!

Like many of you here, I've been building lots of products throughout the years & every time this question came up without fail: how many people can use this at the same time? (typically just before release 😃)

There are many expensive, enterprise & scary-looking tools that could help with this. But that's not what this is. This is a friendly-priced, no-nonsense app that allows you to quickly spin up a smoke test & show you when things are slow, unresponsive or crashing. It doesn't require accounts, subscriptions or some sort of enterprise deal - it's your own little app that you own & can use to better sleep at night 😇

The story of this app begins years ago. It was close to launch when I was faced with the question: "how many concurrent users can it handle?". So I started writing a script. Then it became a cli tool and now an app! It's something I use myself & I always find that an endpoint either:

- doesn't support 2+ users doing something at the same time - becomes slow as soon as a few requests are sent - crashes altogether

✨Here's where Clobbr comes in ✨

👉 Powerful, yet simple and delightful user interface. • Make requests to API endpoints with ease • Set up request timeouts, headers, payload and much more • Explore results as a beautiful list, summarizing your settings • Analyse charts with response times and easily re-run tests • Delve into key stats such as standard deviation, percentiles and more

👉 Easily configure requests. • Easily configure verb (GET, PUT, POST etc.) • Configure headers for each request • Use scripts to get/set dynamic headers • Set data in the built-in JSON editor

👉 Explore result history. • Understand how key statistics evolve over time • Explore historical response timings using charts • Analyze historical data in detail in the tabular view • Grab error responses so you can improve tour API

👉 Share results on the web. • Share results with your team with the push of a button • Quickly share result charts and key statistics • No data is stored on a server and sensitive info is stripped

👉 All data stored locally. Your privacy comes first. • None of the request or result data is stored on a server • No account needed • No tracking

I hope this tool will get you out of a jam regardless if you are front-end, back-end, DevOPS, SRE or any other kind of engineer.

Looking forward to your feedback & thanks so much for supporting a fellow indie developer 🫶 Dan

-- 👋 Say hi on Twitter ⬇️ Get Clobbr on the Mac AppStore ⬇️ Get Clobbr on the Microsoft Store ⭐️ Star Clobbr on Github 📦 Get Clobbr on npm