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Dev tools · June 16, 2020

Boop

A scriptable scratchpad for developers. Free & open source!

Boop launched on June 16, 2020 with 136 votes, #246 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Boop is a place for developers to paste text and transform it using basic operations such as JSON formatting, unescaping, base 64 encoding, etc. The idea is to make those tasks quick to access and avoid having to paste your precious data into random websites.

A free and open source application for developers.

Listen, we've all been there. Sometimes you need to do something, and it's just way easier to Google something like "json formatter online" and paste your data into whatever the first result is. It's not your fault Xcode prints out escaped strings. And who knows how to get the character count in Terminal? I mean why would that access token be URL encoded? Speaking of, does that JWT look base 64 encoded to you? Also that JSON response is one big line it's really hard to read. Oh boy, that XML document is just a complete mess. I wonder what the MD5 for the password I use everywhere is? Oh, here we go, md5generator dot com, you're my savior! It doesn't take a lot of text to tell you what Boop…from boop.okat.best

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