Ashwin Sathian
ReportI am a software engineer in Kochi, Kerala, India, and the sole maintainer of Wayfarer. I build it in the open under the MIT licence, with no company and no outside funding so far.
Wayfarer
Wayfarer is an API client that opens in a browser tab: no install, no account and no server of ours. Collections, history and an encrypted secrets vault stay in the browser's IndexedDB, and the only network traffic is the request you send. It imports Postman, Insomnia, OpenAPI, HAR and cURL, runs Postman-style scripts in a QuickJS sandbox, and handles REST, GraphQL, WebSockets and event streams. It ships wayfarer-cli (runs a collection in CI) and wayfarer-bridge (a local relay for what a browser blocks) on npm. Each of its 94 public claims has a test in CI, run in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit where the claim is about the page. It launched on 10 November 2026 and is young: one maintainer, version 3.4.0.
Independent security review
A manual review by an independent firm or freelancer of the vault, the script sandbox, the Local Bridge and the share-link codec, with a retest. The report is published and findings are tracked in public issues. Until now only the maintainer and automated tests have checked these. The amount is the top of what Indian vendors list for a manual web app test (50,000 to 75,000 INR), as the scope is wider.
Git-backed collections
A stipend for three months of part-time work (25,000 INR a month) on the next roadmap item: keep a collection as plain files in a Git repository, with each change and its diff visible before it is taken. Bruno and Yaak have this and Wayfarer does not.
Accessibility audit
A manual audit with a screen reader and keyboard on real devices, from a freelancer, plus a retest of the fixes. Automated checks (axe, WCAG 2.2 A and AA) already run in CI. Freelance quotes in India for this are typically 10,000 to 35,000 INR.
Hosting and domain for a year
Twelve months of running costs: Cloudflare Pro and Workers Paid at their published prices (about 26,000 INR a year, at a rough exchange rate), and a domain of its own, so the site stops sharing a zone with the maintainer's personal site. CI is free on GitHub Actions. If Cloudflare's Project Alexandria credits are granted, this plan is reduced or withdrawn.