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Presented by Liyas Thomas, Creator @ Hoppscotch
Hoppscotch is an open source request builder and API testing tool used by over 150,000 developers globally. In just a short period of time, it has surged in popularity and become widely adopted by the developer community. Starting off with his motivation behind creating Hoppscotch, Liyas Thomas will share his journey of building the software and his methodologies for scaling it. He'll also dive into how he manages to financially sustain an open source project. Finally, based on his experiences with the open source community and developers worldwide, Liyas will share his insights on the future of open source developer tools.
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A
A
So
so
that
was
the
exact
day
that
I
realized
there
is
this
category
of
tools
called
api
testing
tools
and
guess
what
I
actually
went
on
a
hunt
to
find
a
simple
solution
that
would
allow
me
to
test
my
apis.
Without
you
know,
making
much
effort,
I
even
tried
downloading
one
popular
app,
but
it
ended
up
crashing
my
10
year
old,
pc
and
realizing.
All
such
tools
are,
you
know,
causing
a
lot
of
cpu
consumption.
A
I
was
very
frustrated
because,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
if
I
don't
get
my
job
done,
I'm
gonna
get
fired
from
my
first
ever
tech
job.
So
at
that
night
itself
I
decided
to
create
a
tool
which
operates
in
my
web
browser
so
that
I
can,
I
can
you
know
test
my
apis
directly
from
the
browser
window
itself,
without
switching
back
and
forth
between
multiple
apps
and
within,
like
two
to
three
hours,
I
created
a
very
minimal
mvp
which
looked
something
like
this,
so
you
can
see
exactly
how
unpolished
or
incomplete
the
first
time.
A
Vp
of
hope,
squash
looks
like
this
is
the
first
ever
initial
commit
that
I
made
on
github
for
the
hopes
coach
project.
It
is
pretty
simple:
you
just
have
to
enter
the
api,
endpoint
choose
a
method
and
just
click
send
and
you
will
get
the
response
beneath
it.
So
if
there
is
anything
or
if
there
was
only
one
thing,
I
want
you
to
remember
from
this
session.
It
should
be.
A
This
never
be
ashamed
of
your
initial
version
and
if
your
first
launch
doesn't
look
somewhat
like
this,
the
chances
are,
it's
probably
too
late
to
launch
so
ship,
your
product
ship,
your
idea
as
soon
as
possible.
So
moving
on
after
making
the
initial
commit,
I
felt
very
proud
of
myself.
I
went.
I
was
very
satisfied
with
what
I
have
done.
I
really
wanted
to
share
the
news
with
the
community.
A
A
After
launching
the
mvp
in
github
pages,
I
also
wrote
a
blog
on
my
devdot
profile,
and
I
I
went
back
to
sleep
the
next
day
when
I
woke
up.
I
actually
woke
up
to
this
hundred
plus
notifications
on
my
smartphone.
Most
of
them
were
from
github.
There
were
a
lot
of
issues.
There
were
a
lot
of
future
requests
lot
of
comments
on
the
project.
A
I
started
to
realize
that,
within
like
six
to
eight
hours
I
mean
in
overnight
I
had
100
plus
active
uses
using
the
first
evolution
of
hopscotch.
Over
the
week
I
tried
adding
a
lot
of
more
features
and
fixing
a
lot
of
bugs
right
now.
Hope
scotch
is
a
community
of
180,
000
plus
users
and
the
ui,
and
the
app
has
improved
lot
more,
and
this
is
the
current
hopes
calculation
with
lot
of
features
from
the
initial
version.
A
You
can
test
your
apis
within
two
to
five
seconds
and
the
response
can
be
like
found
here.
Apart
from
testing
restful
apis,
you
can
even
test
graphql
real-time
api,
such
as
web,
socket
ssc.
You
can
even
generate
api
documentation
and
the
whole
hope
scotch
testing
ecosystem
consists
of
a
cli
client,
two
web
browser
extensions,
a
proxy
middleware
servers
and
lot
of
lot
of
other
projects
as
well.
A
A
A
So
these
are
some
of
my
observations
that
I
made
from
building
hopscotch
project,
which
might
help
you
to
build
the
next
best
open
source
project.
So
the
first
thing
starts
with
a
realization
that
progress
takes
time.
It
might
happen
overnight,
but
the
mindset
should
be
progress
should
take
at
least
a
limited
period
of
time
for
the
project
to
get
to
a
mature
state.
A
A
I
was
facing
an
issue
or
a
problem
which
is
there.
There
was
no
api
testing
tools,
works
for
web
web
platform,
and
I
made
that
solution,
and
at
first
I
was
the
only
user,
but
as
soon
as
I
started,
sharing
it
with
more
my
friends,
I
started
to
realize
the
app
requires
more
essential
features
and
a
lot
of
refactoring
that
need
to
be
done
so
always
start
with
one
problem
and
solve
that
solution
for
one
user
and
scale
upwards,
and
the
other
thing,
which
is
the
most
important
of
all,
is
being
consistent
with
your
project.
A
Never
let
your
dependencies
go
out
of
date,
always
keep
your
repository
up
to
date,
accept
contributions,
reply
to
your
issues
or
pull
requests
as
soon
as
possible.
So
that
is
how
and
why
you
should
keep
your
repositories
consistent
and
next
thing
is
always
keep
your
community
engaged
for
hopscotch.
We
have
two
very
active
communities,
one
is
a
discord
server
and
the
other
is
a
telegram
public
group.
A
We
always
discuss
our
upcoming
features
with
the
community
members
and
get
feedbacks
on
how
to
do
it
or
if
we
encounter
a
bug
which
is,
you
know,
affecting
a
lot
of
uses.
We
always
ask
for
the
community
members
on
feedbacks.
Also,
you
should
try
to
promote
your
project.
Very
often
this
can
be
done
in
lot
of
ways,
but
from
my
personal
experience,
I
believe
documenting
your
project,
whether
through
a
blog
or
a
github,
read
me
everything
works.
A
I
wrote
a
blog
and
document
your
progress
is
the
single
most
best
way
to
promote
your
project.
Share
your
obstacles
share
how
you
solve
them.
There
are
developers
who
are
eagerly
waiting
to
see
how
you
did
that,
and
the
next
thing
is
well.
The
project
consists
of
me
and
one
of
my
partner,
andrew
bastian,
who
lives
in
canada.
We
are
the
car
developers
and
we
always
ask
others
for
help.
A
I
am
a
friend
and
person
and
my
partner
is
led
back
back
in
person.
Everything
related
to
backhand
is
single-handedly
done
by
him
and
with
the
help
of
the
community,
I
and
him
always
ask
for
feedbacks
and
help
from
the
community,
and
we
are
always
keen
to
do
it.
So
this
always
help
us
to
keep
the
community
engaged
and
this
this
results
in
the
betterment
of
the
project.
A
You
know
building
a
recurring
revenue
for
your
open
source
project,
so
the
first
one
which
is
the
most
obvious
one,
accepting
sponsorships
and
donations
from
your
potential
users.
Every
open
source
project
has
this
philosophy
of
gratitude
behind
it.
The
uses
are
agreed
to
show
the
gratitude
in
terms
of
financial
support
as
well,
and
to
do
it
there
are
a
lot
of
projects.
Github
sponsors,
open,
collective,
are
doing
extraordinary
things
to
do
so.
I
I
advise
everyone
to
add
a
sponsorship
button
to
your
repositories
and
even
organizations.
A
The
second
most
one
is
self-hosted
instances.
So
after
evaluating
our
traffic,
we
realized
that
our
48
percentage
of
traffic
were
coming
from
developer
communities
in
countries
like
china,
singapore
even
from
india
and
one
thing
very
peculiar
about
these
communities.
Are
they
they
prefer
a
self-hosted
instance
rather
than
a
public
domain,
and
obviously
there
are
a
lot
of
reasons
for
this,
like
bandwidth
issues
and
all,
but
you
can
actually
find
a
monetization
plan
on
self-hosting.
You
are
on
open
source
project.
A
If
it
is
self-hosting
project
do
provide
guidelines
on
how
to
do
it,
and
if
someone
is
having
trouble
with
self-hosting,
your
project
help
them
and
accept
a
fee
for
that.
So
that
is
about
self-hosting
your
projects,
and
the
next
thing
is
being
a
creator
of
your
project.
You
are
the
best
one
to
educate,
how
to
run
your
project
or
how
to
make
use
of
a
project
for
others
for
a
project
like
hopscotch.
A
There
is
literally
zero
friction
to
get
started
with,
but
as
the
use
cases
increase
or
if,
if
the
users
requires
a
complex
functionality
or
a
feature,
they
approach
us
on
how
to
do
it.
We
either
show
them
how
to
solve
it
or
we
solve
them
by
ourselves,
and
for
that
for
educating
your
users
on
how
to
use
your
software
is,
you
can
accept
a
charge
and
the
fourth
most
one
is
again
one
of
the
most
conventional
one.
You
can
release
a
feature
or
a
set
of
features
which
comes
with
a
paid
plan.
A
A
So,
even
though,
if
you
are
able
to
sustain
your
project,
how
can
you
even
make
an
open
source
developer
tools?
If
you
look
at
the
current
proprietary
services,
if
you
look
at
every
of
them,
you
can
actually
find
that
every
property
service
use
at
least
one
open
source
tool
or
library
in
its
core
technology.
A
A
If
you,
if
you
find
anything
which
lacks
a,
is,
find
a
solution
and
make
an
mvp,
even
though
you
build
a
solution
for
a
single
user,
always
look
for
an
enterprise
level
use
cases.
So
basically
enterprises
are
communities
of
single
users.
If
one
user
has
an
issue,
the
chances
are,
there
are
a
lot
of
uses
which
face
the
same
issues.
A
A
So
scaling
again
comes
with
you
know,
starting
with
one
user
sharing
with
10
of
your
friends
and
scaling
scaling
to
your
100
plus
friends,
documenting
your
progress
and
all
so.
This
is
how
you
can
exactly
build
and
make
the
next
best
open
source
developer
tools
with
the
help
of
community
and
hopes
coach
being
a
tool
built
by
the
community
and
built
for
the
community.
We
are
really
proud
to
accept
all
these
contributions
from
our
collaborators.
A
B
Thanks
a
lot
lias
that
was,
that
was
a
really
interesting
session
to
know
about.
You
know
your
journey
in
building
hopscotch
and
everything
else
that
you
have
come
across.
So
all
of
you
tuning
in
live.
If
you
have
any
questions
for
vrs
drop
them
over
on
discussions
on
github
satellite.com
discussions
and
we'll
be
taking
up
some
of
them
live
here
for
years.
B
A
So
this
is
actually
a
tricky
question,
because
everybody
has
their
own
ways
on
finding
motivation
and
how
I
personally
did
is
I
always
find
that
motivation
is
a
personal
choice.
If
I
want
to
do
it,
I
will
find
a
way
to
do
it
and,
if
I
don't
want,
I
will
find
excuses
too.
I
want
that.
So
I
believe
motivation
is
a
choice
that
you
have
to
make
by
yourself,
and
the
way
to
do
is
is
like
the
example
that
I
mentioned.
A
If
you
are,
you
know,
if
you're
like
documenting
your
progress
or
sharing
the
news
with
your
friends
or
your
communities,
you
will
always
have
this
push
from
them
to
deliver
much
more,
and
that
is
the
single.
Most
reason
why
I
keep
you
know.
Building
all
those
projects
and
motivation
is
a
choice
that
you
have
to
make
by
yourself.
A
Yes,
so,
as
I
mentioned,
the
project
has
over
120
plus
contributors
from
almost
every
country,
though
so
how
we
did
it.
Well,
we
kind
of
like
leveraged
that
you
know
issues
with
opposite
time
zones
to
our
advantage
and
how
we
did
it
at
any.
Given
time
either.
One
of
us,
one
of
the
contributors
will
be
online
and
whenever
someone
raises
a
concern
or
an
issue
or
a
pull
request,
we
will
immediately
respond
to
it,
because,
if
I
am
sleeping
my
friend
will
be.
B
A
Okay,
so
being
an
open
source
developer.
Well,
apart
from
contributing
to
your
open
source
projects,
there
are
a
lot
of
ways
on
you
know
how
how
you
can
make
a
change
in
the
world,
and
it
doesn't
have
to
be
like
writing
code.
It
can
be
helping
your
friends
in
need.
It
can
be,
you
know,
being
a
part
in
the
decision
committee
or
it.
A
C
A
A
And
if
you
have
a
potential
customer
who
would
like
to
have
a
self-hosted
version,
you
can
have
a
discussion
with
them
and
you
know
charge
a
fixed
amount
for
doing
all
those
self-hosting
process,
which
is
again
one
of
the
best
ways
on
how
you
can
monetize
your
open
source
project.
If
it
is
self-hostable.
C
A
A
B
Great
thanks
a
lot
lias
we
know
there
are.
There
are
some
more
questions
which
are
coming
in,
but
just
as
a
reminder,
lias
will
be
around
on
github
discussions
for
the
next
30
minutes,
so
you
can
catch
him
over
on
getupsatelite.com
discussions
right
over
there
for
any
other
questions
that
you
can
have.
So
thanks
a
lot
lias
for
joining
us
today.
It
was
really
interesting
to
learn
about
your
journey
about
hopscotch
and
everything
else
as
well,
so
see
you
soon.
Thank
you.