Request Eagle is an open-source API client written in Rust and drawn on the GPU, with no web view. It answers your first keystroke 0.36 s after launch, keeps requests as TOML files you can commit, runs Postman-style pm.* scripts and has a CLI for AI agents.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Gregor, and I built Request Eagle because my API client had become the slowest app on my machine. Waiting four seconds for it to open, signing in to send a GET request, and exporting collections to share them with my team felt wrong for a tool I open dozens of times a day.
So Request Eagle is a real desktop app first:
⚡ Native and fast. Written in Rust and drawn on the GPU, no web view inside. On my MacBook it answers the first keystroke 0.36 s after launch. Postman takes 4.3 s.
📁 Your files. Every request is a TOML file in a folder you choose. Commit it, review it in a pull request, share it with a push. No account and no cloud.
🧪 Familiar scripts. Pre-request and post-response JavaScript with the pm.* API, tests, JSON Schema checks and pm.sendRequest.
🔌 More than REST. gRPC with reflection, WebSocket and server-sent events. OAuth 2.0, AWS Signature and more. A Collection Runner with CSV and JSON data, and Flows for chaining requests on a canvas.
⌨️ Keyboard first. ⌘↵ to send, a command palette, shortcuts you can rebind, and Vim mode in the editors.
🤖 Ready for agents. An optional CLI that speaks JSON lets coding agents list, edit and run the same collections.
Moving over takes a minute: import Postman collections and environments, OpenAPI documents or cURL commands.
It runs on Apple Silicon Macs, Windows and Debian or Ubuntu. It's free and open source under MIT or Apache 2.0.
Request Eagle is still early, so I'd love to hear what you'd need before you switch. What's the one thing that keeps you in your current API client?
About Request Eagle on Product Hunt
“Fast and open-source Postman alternative”
Request Eagle launched on Product Hunt on October 9th, 2026 and earned 67 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #33 on the daily leaderboard. Request Eagle is an open-source API client written in Rust and drawn on the GPU, with no web view. It answers your first keystroke 0.36 s after launch, keeps requests as TOML files you can commit, runs Postman-style pm.* scripts and has a CLI for AI agents.
On the analytics side, Request Eagle competes within API, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 730.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Request Eagle performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Request Eagle?
Request Eagle was hunted by Egor Tokarev. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Egor Tokarev