AI tool comparison
Kampala vs WUPHF
Which one should you ship with? Here is the side-by-side panel verdict, pricing read, reviewer split, and community vote comparison.
Developer Tools
Kampala
MITM proxy that reverse-engineers any app into a stable, callable API
75%
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Community
Free
Entry
Kampala, built by Zatanna AI (YC W26), is a macOS proxy tool that sits between your applications and the internet, intercepts every HTTP/HTTPS request, and automatically reverse-engineers the underlying API. It traces authentication chains — tracking tokens, cookies, and session state — and replays flows on demand, preserving original TLS fingerprints so services can't distinguish API calls from the real app. The key insight is that almost every app that lacks a public API still has a private one — and it's usually more stable than the UI. Kampala targets automation engineers, QA teams, and AI agent builders who need reliable machine-readable access to apps that haven't opened their APIs. Setup is a local MITM cert install; no cloud proxy involved. Currently macOS-only with a Windows waitlist. The team emerged from YC's Winter 2026 batch with backing from Y Combinator. Pricing is in early access, with a free tier planned for solo developers and paid plans for teams building production automations.
Developer Tools
WUPHF
Open-source multi-agent 'office' — AI teams that think together
75%
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Community
Paid
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WUPHF is an open-source orchestration system that turns multiple LLM agents into a visible, collaborative 'office.' Spawn a CEO, PM, engineers, and designers as agents running simultaneously — all able to @mention each other, claim tasks, and maintain a shared wiki of knowledge. It's like GitHub for agent thought. The architecture is cleverly frugal: instead of accumulating context, WUPHF uses fresh sessions per turn with Claude's prompt caching, hitting 97% cache hit rates and dropping five-turn sessions to roughly $0.06. Agents are push-driven — they only wake when notified, meaning zero idle token burn. A dual memory system (per-agent Notebooks + shared Wiki) keeps the team aligned across sessions. Built by indie developers and spotted trending on Hacker News, WUPHF targets the rapidly growing segment of builders who want more than one AI "employee" but don't want to pay enterprise orchestration prices. Telegram bridge, Composio integration, and a clean web UI at localhost:7891 round out the package.
Reviewer scorecard
“This is the tool I've been building in-house at three different companies and never had time to productize properly. The auth chain tracing alone — tracking token refresh flows and session state automatically — would have saved me hundreds of hours. If it works as advertised, it's an instant ship for anyone doing integration work.”
“The token-efficiency story alone makes this worth trying — $0.06 for a five-agent session is remarkable. The @mention graph and shared wiki are genuinely novel patterns that every multi-agent framework should steal.”
“Terms of service violations are a real concern here. Most apps explicitly prohibit automated access through their private APIs, and companies like LinkedIn and Instagram have sued over exactly this pattern. The MITM cert requirement also opens a broad attack surface. Wait for a clearer legal stance before building production systems on this.”
“The 'AI office' metaphor sounds fun until you're debugging why the agent-CEO contradicted the agent-PM three turns ago. Fresh-session architecture fixes cost but breaks longitudinal reasoning — agents can't truly learn from mistakes across days.”
“The long-term story here is about AI agents needing reliable access to every app humans use. We can't wait for every SaaS to ship an official API. Tools like Kampala are how AI agents will integrate with the existing software ecosystem for the next five years, until MCP-style universal interfaces catch up.”
“This is what agent-native software development looks like before the big platforms catch up. The Telegram bridge and push-driven activation pattern hint at a world where your 'team' lives in your chat app, not a browser tab.”
“For social media automation and cross-platform content workflows this is a game-changer. Building automations for platforms with limited or expensive APIs has always required fragile browser scraping — having a stable API layer extracted from the real app traffic is a much better foundation.”
“Being able to spin up a dedicated 'creative director' agent alongside your developer agents is genuinely useful. The visible activity stream means you can actually see the creative process unfolding in real-time.”
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