Building My Own API Client at 14: From Requests to AI-Powered Insights

**_Building My Own API Client: Why I Did It I’m 14, and I’ve already spent a lot of time exploring API tools like Postman, Hoppscotch, Insomnia, and more. While they’re all powerful and useful, I wanted something that was truly my own. Using pre-made tools is great, but I often felt limited by their design and workflow. I wanted a tool that reflects how I think about APIs, handle requests and responses, and analyze data in ways that make sense to me. That curiosity and need for control inspired me to start building my own API client from scratch. What My API Client Can Do Even at this early stage, the client already supports a lot of features. It handles cookies, request bodies, JSON data, headers, parameters, HTTP methods, and keeps a history of all requests and responses. It also measures request and response size and timing, giving detailed insights into API performance. This makes it easier to understand exactly what’s happening behind the scenes with each API call, instead of just