About #

Prestige is an HTTP client, a developer tool for people working with APIs and other HTTP endpoints.

I’ve had the idea for a text-based HTTP client like Prestige for several years now, but I’ve been working on this latest incarnation of the idea since late 2019. One of the more well-received previous implementations is the roast.vim plugin that does a version of this idea as a Vim plugin.

Get Involved #

The project is open source (distributed using the Apache-2.0 license ), with source code available on the GitHub project .

Contributions are welcome, for the most part. But if it’s even slightly non-trivial, or more than a few lines of code changes, I’d strongly urge you to open an issue first to discuss it out before working towards a PR. Among other things, this can help avoid overlaps where we’re both working on the same thing, and we realize it only after you open a PR.

Sustainability #

This app is currently free since it doesn’t cost me much to maintain it. I spend multiple hours every weekend on features and bug fixes, but I’m currently focused on working with stuff that directly impact my work during weekdays. So the effort I spend on Prestige, kind of pays off elsewhere.

But obviously, this is not sustainable. Depending on traction and wider adoption, if there’s a need for more features and functionality, I wouldn’t shy away from introducing a paid subscription plan to help sustain it’s maintenance.