It Is 100% Free Until….

…The Moment You Got Managed How To Use Our Tool, Then Your “ We Hope You’ll Forget Cancelling“ Paid Subscription Starts.

TL;DR — 🚀 Why I built an actually free mock server which can be started just with the following single command ? Readme.md

$ docker run -p 7080:7080 -d hhaluk/mocktail

Freemium to premium convention rates are highly changing depending on the product/service, but whatever you are selling, I admit it is a great strategy.
Of course there is a “but” coming right after that. Sometimes it is throwing the net and watching how many fish will get caught. Some paid subscription offers seem like nothing but effort of enchanting people with hypothetical needs. This is what I am not comfortable with.

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Lately, I’ve been working on a software project. What I needed was a simple, user-friendly, lightweight, free mock server. Something I am not planning to have it with me afterlife. I’ll use it, then I’ll throw it away. Maybe few weeks later, I’ll use it again. I’ve googled and tried many solutions. Some of them are providing cloud solutions, which can be acceptable why they want your money, but some of them are working on YOUR local machine and still asking your money. I believe that’s the hand of the person who went with the second option. (Hang tight, next section includes the solution )

In my perspective, developers are shortcut finders/builders, catalysts. Well, as a developer I came up with a solution. Mocktail.

Mocktail is always free, lightweight, dockerized, pretty quick mock server with user friendly interface.

Start your mock server with single command below

$ docker run -p 7080:7080 -d hhaluk/mocktail

Open your favorite browser and type localhost:7080 and you have it.

Please check the repository for features, tips & more. Once you get there, a pretty readme file welcomes you. There are currently more than ten features.

“App is extremely easy to use” says early adopters.

Thanks For Reading

My name is Hüseyin. If you have any questions, feedbacks or suggestions, please email me, I would like to hear them.