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Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by samschooler »

s_dev wrote: post #11
shmoogy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems pretty nice but $50 is a little high - is it really worth the premium?

No -- I used and paid for PAW for a while. I gave up on all MacPaw products once I realized their sales staff contacted me after I asked them not to -- they immediately lost me as customer. They just wanted to 'help' me get on to a more expensive plan that was for Teams. There are plenty of great alternatives: HTTPie is one I like. Haven't found a good alternative to CleanMyMac yet though.

Unless I'm mistaken, Paw isn't owned by MacPaw? It's an unrealted product with a one time purchase price.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by neogodless »

Snacklive wrote: post #18

Page is not working for me. I'm in Firefox

Windows 10, Firefox 106.0.1, uBlock, multi-account containers, facebook container, bitwarden, DDG privacy, consent-o-matic, font contrast, dark reader

Works fine for me.

Opened a request to https://api.publicapis.org/entries and it fetched results.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by BowBun »

edpichler wrote: post #20

Be careful with Postman. It seems they upload all your secrets to their servers. We stopped to use it a time ago. I don't know if they changed in this regard.

How else would they sync all of the shared stuff in your workspace? I'm more interested if they properly encrypt my data in transit and at rest and whether Postman employees have free access to our secrets.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by s_dev »

samschooler wrote: post #21
s_dev wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No -- I used and paid for PAW for a while. I gave up on all MacPaw products once I realized their sales staff contacted me after I asked them not to -- they immediately lost me as customer. They just wanted to 'help' me get on to a more expensive plan that was for Teams. There are plenty of great alternatives: HTTPie is one I like. Haven't found a good alternative to CleanMyMac yet though.

Unless I'm mistaken, Paw isn't owned by MacPaw? It's an unrealted product with a one time purchase price.

There is some financial relationship there. You get PAW with a SetApp bundle that MacPaw sell as a subscription.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by mch82 »

Cool project! A true, open source alternative to Postman will be valuable. It seems like you’ve got the major elements in place.

Unsolicited UX notes…

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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by judge2020 »

philliphaydon wrote: post #25

I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.

One thing I love from Insomnia.rest is the ability to import CURL commands, including an entire list of newline-delimited CURL commands from the clipboard. This makes it easier to modify XHR's you pulled from your browser via a right click -> "copy all as cURL (bash)".

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by philliphaydon »

duiker101 wrote: post #19

My favorite testing HTTP Client is still just the IntelliJ built-in, pure text. You know exactly what you send without having to navigate menus and whatnot. In the end, 99% of HTTP requests are just that, text.

Can you chain requests together? Like if a request requires auth it will invoke login then take the token for use in the next request.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by alias_neo »

philliphaydon wrote: post #25

I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.

Same, my team and I started using Insomnia too when Postman pulled that stunt; doesn't matter if they went back on, good will lost in that way is a bridge burned that can't be rebuilt.
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