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“Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs https://www.zatanna.ai/kampala Founder's Show HN post: Hey! I am Alex and together with my co-founder Tarun built Kampala (https://www.zatanna.ai/kampala). It’s a man-in-the-middle (MITM) style proxy that allows you to agentically reverse engineer existing workflows without brittle browser automation or computer use agents. It works for websites, mobile apps, desktop apps. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_PeostC-b4. Many people spend hours per day in legacy dashboards and on-prem solutions reconciling data across platforms. Current attempts at automation use browser automations or computer use agents which are brittle, slow, and nondeterministic. I come from a web reverse engineering background and spent the last 7-8 years building integrations by hand for sneaker/ticket releases, sportsbooks logins, and everything in\ between. During that time I consulted for several companies and brought them off of browser based infrastructure into the requests layer. When we started Zatanna (that’s our company name) we worked in dental tech, which meant we had to deal with tons of insurance payer dashboards and legacy dental-practice solutions. Our superpower (as a fairly undifferentiated voice agent/front desk assistant company) was that we could integrate with nearly any system requested. During this time we built extensive tooling (including what we’re now calling Kampala) to allow us to spin up these integrations quickly. Existing MITM proxies and tooling didn’t work for a few reasons: (1) They manipulated the TLS and HTTP2 fingerprint over the wire which was detected by strict anti-bots. (2) They had bad MCPs which did not adequately expose necessary features like scripts/replay. (3) They did not allow for building workflows or actions given a sample or sequence of requests. As the tools we built got more powerful, we began to use them internally to scrape conference attendees, connect to external PMS systems, and interact with slack apps. I even sent it to my property manager mom, who (with a lot of help from me lo Landing page content (See every request. Automate any workflow.): New Learn why APIs are the future Read the article → Kampala by Zatanna # See every request. Automate any workflow. Kampala lets you reverse engineer websites, mobile apps, and desktop software instantly—then turn the request flow into repeatable automation. Download for Mac Windows waitlist Join Discord Features ## Everything you need to reverse engineer any software flow. 01 ### Full traffic interception See every HTTP/S request from any app or browser in real time. 02 ### Auth chain tracing Map tokens, cookies, sessions, and multi-step sequences automatically. 03 ### Flow replay and export Capture sequences and replay them as stable automations. 04 ### Fingerprint preservation Maintain the HTTP and TLS fingerprint so intercepted traffic behaves like the original. Get Kampala ## Start tracing workflows on your machine. Available now ### Kampala for Mac Download Kampala and begin inspecting software traffic on macOS today. Download for macOS Coming next ### Kampala for Windows Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know as soon as Windows support is ready. Join the Windows waitlist→ ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Zatanna","url":"https://www.zatanna.ai"},{"@type":"WebSite","name":"Zatanna","url":"https://www.zatanna.ai"},{"@type":"WebPage","name":"Kampala — MITM Proxy for Reverse Engineering & Workflow Automation | Zatanna","description":"Intercept, inspect, and replay any HTTP flow. A debugging proxy built for automation engineers.","url":"https://www.zatanna.ai/kampala","image":"https://www.zatanna.ai/og-image.png"}]} ```”