Sparrow is a powerful API dev tool designed to simplify API testing and documentation. With features like powerful AI assistant, Automated API test flows and seamless document generation, it streamlines your dev workflow and enhances your team productivity.
Hey Product Hunt community! 👋
We are excited to launch Sparrow, an innovative API dev tool that aims to simplify your development process. Here’s what you can expect:
Key Features:
Powerful AI assistant
Automated API test flows
AI powered document generation
User-friendly dashboard for managing multiple APIs
Seamless collaboration tools for your team
Who it’s for:
Ideal for developers, product managers, and teams working with APIs who want to enhance productivity and streamline their workflows.
We developed Sparrow after experiencing firsthand the complexities of testing APIs across different platforms. Our goal is to create a solution that saves time and minimizes hassle.
We’re eager to hear your feedback on Sparrow, especially regarding any features you’d like to see in the future.
Don’t forget to use Sparrow for FREE!
Feel free to ask us anything about Sparrow or share your thoughts! We’re here to help.🚀
Nice. this will be super useful for me. would love to know what was your inspiration behind building this?
Finally, Sparrow is here!! Loved the competitive advantages and features it offers. Which makes it uniquely useful from all other API testing tools. And yeah, the beautiful and intuitive UI is just awesome!
Many many congratulations on the launch. Greatly appreciate the hard work of the team behind this amazing tool. 🚀
Keep up the good work!! 🔥
Such an amazing piece of work. This is really helpful in fulfilling mundane tasks as developer.
Congrats on launching @gauravc12 @joshi_rahul @astitvapatle @itsmdasifraza and the entire Sparrow team! 🎉
API management is such a crucial part of modern development, and it's great to see Sparrow making it easier for agile teams and individual developers to streamline their workflows. Testing, organizing, and sharing APIs can be a pain point for many, so having an all-in-one solution like Sparrow is definitely a valuable addition to the ecosystem.
A couple of questions I had about your roadmap and the direction of the product:
Collaboration and team features: As Sparrow is geared towards agile teams, do you have plans to introduce more collaborative tools such as version control or team-wide API analytics? How do you envision scaling these features for larger teams or organizations that handle numerous APIs simultaneously?
Security and governance: With APIs being critical touchpoints for many businesses, security is always top of mind. Are there plans to add features around API security and governance, such as automated vulnerability detection or compliance checks? This could be a big draw for companies with stringent API security needs.
Now for some feedback:
The platform looks well-organized and user-friendly, which is perfect for developers who want to quickly test and manage their APIs. However, I think expanding the integration options to work with popular dev tools like GitHub, Postman, or CI/CD pipelines could take the workflow to the next level, making Sparrow more deeply integrated into existing development processes.
Suggestion: Consider adding pre-built integrations with widely used developer tools to help teams transition smoothly to Sparrow and further improve their API management workflows.
Also, I noticed there’s no live chat support on the site. Adding a customer support chatbot could help users troubleshoot faster or get answers to their technical questions more easily, improving their overall experience with the platform.
All in all, Sparrow looks like a game changer for API management, and I’m excited to see how it continues to grow! 🙌
hey this looks great, and open source! Congrats on the launch 🚀 how does it compare to something like Insomnia? Aside from being free!
Congrats team! 🙌 Can you provide examples of how Automated API test flows work and their impact on development speed?
@anmol_kushwah Sparrow is such a powerful tool. I love your idea. Fantastic tool love the direction you are headed.
I love your idea @anmol_kushwah. The AI assistant is helpful though it could be even more intuitive with more contextual responses to specific API errors. Great job.
Developer first product, awesome to use. Highly recommend Sparrow to any developer looking for a reliable API testing solution!
It seems like a perfect solution to streamline API testing and boost team productivity. @anmol_kushwah Outstanding work keep it up.
I love how Sparrow combines automated test flows and documentation generation with an AI assistant to streamline the dev process @anmol_kushwah Well done.
The wait is over here, sparrow is officially launched. that is build by developers for developers to ease in the API testing journey.
Want to join our open-source journey - lets start with your first pull request in our official github repositories. Our tech team is always ready to help.
FREE, Open Source, and Secure. What more do you need from an app? Ohh wait!! A mix of beautiful UI and thats how you create Sparrow. A lot of great things coming up so stay tuned.
FInally Sparrow is here, an excellent product for Developers which is very easy to use. With it's incredible features like API Testing, Team Collaboration, Documentation Generation and Testflows it's a game changer in the Development field.
So do try this product and don't forget to share your feedbacks.
We are super excited to launch Sparrow and mark it open for the world. 🎉
This FREE and Open Source API testing tool is nothing of ordinary. You may think of this as yet another API Testing tool but we realised most of the tools focus on just giving a "duplicate" experience and not focus on creating something that maybe useful and beneficial for 2024 and 2025.
Don't get us wrong! We loved Postman, but this decade requires next evolution and that's what Sparrow is. It is for students, new devs, small companies, big companies and enterprises. It is for everyone!
⭐️ Here is what to expect ⭐️
✅ Self Hosting support - When we use Postman, we are always worried about our devs saving the APIs on Postman's server and that was one of the most uncomfortable thing for us. Till now many companies are not able to constraint developers to keep important secrets safe in Postman and this significantly reduces the risk of such exposure.
✅ Security by default - Some decisions in Postman related to sharing postman collections as JSON, accidental publishing of collection were taken to encourage more people use the tool but it came with a setback. We have seen so many postman collections published online which were not supposed to be published with sensitive information. In Sparrow, you just have one way to share, that's adding user as collaborator. So no security lapses!
✅ AI Support - Hey you can't talk about a tool in 2024 without talking about AI. When you open an API in Sparrow, the Sparrow AI agent sets that as context and will give you answer with respect to the API itself. Ask the Sparrow AI to generate a axios request or your API resut in Rust, or you want sample post bodies to be generated? just ask it along. It doesn't end here, we have AI generated documentation as well. Which allows you to generate documentation for your frontend developers.
✅ FREE collaboration - When you invite your colleagues or friends in Sparrow, we don't enforce ANY limit in terms of how many APIs you can create there for free unlike some other tools. Collaboration is at core of Sparrow and that's what makes it not another API Testing tool.
✅ Different API supports - We support REST and Websockets currently. GraphQL, SocketIO are WIP and you would be able to use them soon. We release every 2 weeks and it improves by a LOT in every release.
✅ Different environment support - This may feel not new but try it once and you would know what we are talking about. Switching environment and making sense of what it can accomplish has never been before this easy.
✅ Test Flows - Oh yes we wanna talk about a key feature we built from ground up, it allows you to test multiple APIs together in a sequence. We did ground level research with 100s of developers on what they would want and came up with current experience.
Lastly, this is just a start. We don't want a tool that does everything but ensure whatever it does, it does it in the best way possible. We are working tirelessly to make it tool of choice for every single developer on planet.
And did I mention it is NOT electron application? Yes! you heard it right! It is built on Tauri - using svelte JS and Rust, two of the blazing fast framework + langugage combo. It uses your own OS's browser agent so it is super light weight and super smooth.
Feel free to contribute and star our repo on GitHub at https://github.com/sparrowapp-dev
We are open for feedback, use our canny.io link to submit your feedback and rest assured that shall be handled.
Please upvote us and let's cheers to your new API sidekick you needed.
