# Kampala 7 Hacker News commenters recommended Kampala and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it for turning app interactions into APIs and for debugging, but critics warn it may breach terms of service. ## Why people recommend it - Speeds up integration and debugging (2 comments): "we have a few nice tools (like being able to a/b test payloads/replay requests) that meaningfully reduce integration time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795853)) "I use Kampala to debug our personal APIs/web app all of the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798310)) - Turns UI actions into API calls (2 comments): "It is a good demonstration that 47 iterations of a recursive Claude agent writing itself to decompose any transport." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868474)) "have a fully featured MCP (each UI action is an api action by definition)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796161)) - Useful for testing and datasets (2 comments): "Think this is really interesting especially for creating datasets." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795679)) "potentially quite powerful for automated testing of SPAs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797206)) ## What people warn about - Ethics and terms of service concerns (4 comments): "If a web property has implemented anti-bot mechanisms, what ethical reasons do you have for providing evasion as a service?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798894)) "It's pretty funny to see that in their demo video given it's a blatant violation of their ToS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800915)) "this is pretty much YC sposoring illegal activities now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803496)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ghidra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghidra.md): 80 recommend - [GhidraMCP](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghidra-mcp.md): 30 recommend - [IDA Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ida-pro.md): 25 recommend - [REA Reverse-Engineer Anything](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rea-reverse-engineer-anything.md): 14 recommend - [Binary Ninja](https://hackerapproved.com/p/binary-ninja.md): 13 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Kampala", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kampala/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).