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[Bartłomiej Jończy]

Hi! Please don’t consider this spam, but rather a desire to share what I’ve accomplished. Out of personal need and a desire to create something of my own, I wrote an application that allows you to easily launch a mock REST server, click mock endpoints, and track HTTP traffic.

I hope someone finds this useful. Every download means a lot to me 🙂

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ocelot-api-mocker/id6757696629?mt=12

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Usually people mark it with not kotlin but kotlin colored or 🚫 when there is no immediate connection to, well, Kotlin. It doesn't look like this is an open-source thing (which is fine). Maybe it is in Kotlin or Compose, which then would make that connection.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Please don’t consider this spam

That doesn't stop me. ^^

[Stefan Oltmann]

In my perspective it's just an ad. There are in-app-purchases.

Build something useful for the community and if you mention where you use your lib commercially you can sneak in links. But this way I don't see value.

If it's made with Compose #C01Q62JMKBP is the right place to show screenshots.

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

I use it for mocks for the KMP mobile app myself, and I thought someone else might want it too. But I understand, sorry. 🕊️

[Stefan Oltmann]

Try https://producthunt.com ... That's the next thing I'll try for my new paid app, too.

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

oh, thank you, I didn’t know 🙂

[Stefan Oltmann]

I learned of that last week. 😅
Now that I switch to paid closed-source I need to find new channels.

This one here is really for open source Kotlin apps & libs.

See my last posts about the plugins & libs I recently made.
I sneaked in links to my paid apps. I think that's an acceptable way if the focus is on the knowledge.

What you could do is write a long medium article about how to test Ktor with lots of sample code - that tutorial might use your app. 😉

[Stefan Oltmann]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0BJ0GTE2/p1772199449532479

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

that’s the idea! will try to write something on weekend 🙂 thanks!

[Stefan Oltmann]

You're welcome. 🙂

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

@Stefan Oltmann following your advice: https://www.producthunt.com/products/ocelot-api-mocker 🙂

[Stefan Oltmann]

Looks great. I already signed up and will launch there, too.
How was your experience with the process?

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

It’s easy and mostly automated. Giving the website url does almost everything.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Haha, yeah. That brings me to creating a good landing page per product

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

mine is done mostly with ChatGPT and Gemini, moments before release 😅 https://ocelot.netmade.pl

[Stefan Oltmann]

Netmade.pl is your page?

[Stefan Oltmann]

Ok, I will try to vibe code that. My portfolio page was 70% vibe coded, too.

[Stefan Oltmann]

I feel AI is way better at creating static webpages than working Kotlin apps

[Stefan Oltmann]

Maybe because it’s easier

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

yup, but nothing is here 😓

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

but yes, domain is mine

[Stefan Oltmann]

It's a nice name.

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

thanks 🙂

[Stefan Oltmann]

I was thinking it's a portfolio hosting service at first

[Stefan Oltmann]

Like „this is made for the net“

[Stefan Oltmann]

Would work out

[Stefan Oltmann]

I wonder if there is a something like that already.
Alternatively that would be a business idea…
Like a CRM… drop in description, screenshots and get a portfolio page.

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

backed with LLM - this could work 😄

[Stefan Oltmann]

LLM would be a risk here. I think a static generator for a page is sufficient

[Stefan Oltmann]

Like Jekyll. Just not so complicated

[Bartłomiej Jończy]

Possibly. Although if the agent were given very limited skills, maybe he wouldn’t do such stupid things.