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Dev tools · March 10, 2026

Decoy

Decoy lets developers create mock services locally on macOS. Test webhooks, API wrappers, scrapers and more. No Docker, no Electron, just a beautiful 10 MB native app.

Decoy launched on March 10, 2026 with 99 votes, #458 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

Decoy lets developers create mock services locally. No need for Docker or heavy Electron apps. I built it to test webhook requests coming from my own applications, testing my API wrappers and seeing how my app reacts to redirects, timeouts and failures. You can even mock full webpages to test your scrapers and AI agents against, without risking being rate limited or blocked. All in a beautiful native app. It weighs only 10MB and starts up super quickly and there is no tracking at all.

Decoy lets developers create mock services locally: Send it API requests, webhook requests, test your code against failures. All in a beautiful native app. Define method + path pairs, group them into projects. Point any service at decoy.my:8998 and go. Every incoming request shows up as it arrives. Headers, body, source IP, timestamps. JSON is auto-formatted. Pick a status code, choose a body type, set headers, add a delay if you want. Changes take effect on the next request. Headers, body, source IP, timestamp, UUID. JSON is pretty-printed. Binary data gets a hex dump. CORS headers are added automatically. Browser-based requests just work. Serve images, PDFs, or any file directly. Set the…from decoy-app.com

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