u/limario_bp

Hey guys, I believe most of you know the pain of dealing with large nested JSON from API responses or production traces. It gets even more painful when this is your daily job and you have no good way to visualize it… except quitting :))

I ended up building one for myself with the features I needed:
- level selection
- visualize JSON as a graph node
- send JSON directly to the API Client tool and test it without leaving the current tab

Check it out if interested:
https://catssaymeow.org/json-formatter/

I’m a software engineer, and a big part of my day is debugging issues reported by other teams.

Most of the time I’m:
- checking tokens
- calling APIs
- comparing JSON responses and traces
- writing docs

I kept jumping between different tools for all of this, and it always felt clunky.

I tried finding a lightweight toolkit with a clean UI and smooth workflow, but most tools either felt outdated or started adding AI features that didn’t really make sense to me, especially for workflows involving sensitive tokens or internal data.

So I ended up building a small client-side toolkit for myself: https://catssaymeow.org/

What surprised me was that when I showed it to teammates, some of them immediately asked:
“Why doesn’t it have AI support?”

Personally, I don’t really see the need for AI in tools like JSON formatting, token inspection, API calls, etc.

I’m a software engineer, and a big part of my day is debugging issues reported by other teams.
Most of the time I’m:
- checking tokens
- calling APIs
- comparing responses and traces
- writing docs
I kept jumping between different tools for all of this, and it always felt a bit clunky.
I tried finding a single toolkit with a clean UI and smooth workflow, but nothing really matched what I needed - so I ended up building one myself: https://qautils.catssaymeow.org/

Curious if anyone else has the same workflow, or if there’s a tool you actually like using for this?