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The All-in-One Fake API for you

carban on December 19, 2024

Introducing FooApi I am excited to announce a personal project I’ve been working on: fooapi.com. The service isn’t 100% complete yet—som...
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TimRudy

This is a great service. There are so many types of data to imagine - the first one I thought of is random text/quotes/thought-of-the-day/anything like that, that can be pulled from AI. Depends how many AI requests the host would have access to. Each of them uses electricity and compute, though.

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Kenneth C

Hey! Just wanted to share some friendly feedback - I ran a stress test on your API with 100 parallel threads over 3 mins (~50k requests) and noticed it handled everything like a champ! 🚀 While that's impressive, you might want to consider adding some rate limiting to protect against potential abuse. The API is super cool btw, loving how robust it is!
Keep up the great work! ✨

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carban

@kherrera02 thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it. I did some load tests but not as extensive as yours, I will consider your advice!

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Fyodor

Great project 👍 As @elpidaguy mentioned, if you have the source code available (that is if you plan to keep it open and free), would be interesting to take a look and maybe have the possibility to roll it out locally and test, for instance.

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carban

Sounds good! I built FooApi with the idea of being a free tool for developers. I'm currently finishing some features, and after that, I'll be able to share the code with the community. If you have new ideas or contributions let me know.

Thank you

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Leví Arista

Awesome!! Keep going 💪

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Chris Backhouse

This is a great idea. I can imagine using this in a number of prototypes. I look forward to it being open source!

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Khaja Hussain

very helpful when we work on sample projects or POC.

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KamalMostafa

good idea, better if you put OAuth for some of them just to let ppl try it out.

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carban

Thank you! For now, the endpoints don't require authentication, but adding that possibility is interesting.

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Ciphernutz

Worth reading.

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Daniel Chifamba

This looks cool 😎

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Marco Platzer

Great work, thanks for sharing!

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Quân Trần

This is a great service

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Md Dilshad Alam

Helpful 👍

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Rehana Parveen

Awesome!!!! Worth reading.

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Tóth Richárd

Nice project, keep it going! :)

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Kaustubh Joshi

Good Idea. Is the project open for contribution on GitHub?

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carban

Thank you! Not yet, I'm still working on some features before opening it for contributions. I'll announce updates next month

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Adam

That's great! Thanks for this API!

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Adam

Will also add it to the next issue of weeklyfoo.com.

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carban

Wow! thank you so much, let me know any update