Comment by thegagne
11 hours ago
The cool part of this is it’s an example of what’s possible with a community of users armed with AI.
Many users, (myself included), had need to test cloud stuff locally, but had no tool to do so. Localstack exists, but it started rug pulling the free tier and they didn’t support all the features.
Meanwhile, Floci makes it easy to write your own cloud compatible test suite, then implement the feature to match. I was able to get a good enough coverage on a few features created in a weekend on the $20 tier of Claude to make it useful to me, then others picked up the work to round it out.
It’s really cool to see it grow.
I’d love to see this for stuff like Stripe, Twilio, etc - they’ve got sandboxes but this would be a lot easier and faster.
vercel-labs/emulate [1], has stripe and twilio (their emulators are much more shallow generally like their AWS one can't really be compared to floci here, but i've made custom ones for stuff like emulating hardware devices (airplay/google play) with much success so you can basically extend their base framework with custom emulators or their own provided ones to your needs on a fork.
1. https://github.com/vercel-labs/emulate
for modelling and testing a CI software i was working on, i had to extend their github emulator in several places for example. but it was great to already have a working base.