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by freedomben 1445 days ago
> I want to distribute an Open Source program to end users that does work via a Rest API. A UI isn't strictly necessary but might be required later.

Can you clarify, is the open source program that you distribute to end users serving a REST API (running the server locally), or is it a client (like a CLI) making calls out to a remote REST API?