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Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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I've been using Insomnia since the beginning and I really appreciate how receptive gschier is to feedback and how the support side of things are handled.

I'd love to hear what you're planning on working on next and how you plan to monetize (if you're going to) :)

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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post #20

A lot of people here have been mentioning Postman but my personal go-to has been Advanced Rest Client [1]. It's open source, has Google Drive integration, and seems to have a pretty impressive development rate. For me, it's a definite plus that there isn't a paid tier so the developers don't have any incentive to limit the free product. That said, Insomnia looks like a nice contender and I look forward to giving it a…

Ya, ARC is a pretty good one! Have you heard how the developer is handling the announcement of the shutdown of Chrome apps in 2017? Curious if they'll hop on the Electron bandwagon too.

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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I've been using Insomnia since the beginning and I really appreciate how receptive gschier is to feedback and how the support side of things are handled. I'd love to hear what you're planning on working on next and how you plan to monetize (if you're going to) :)

Insomnia is still in the early stages, so talking to users is something I spend a lot of time and effort on. It's the only way to make a good product :)

My current plan for monetization is to add multi-device sync (almost ready for beta) then team collaboration features shortly after. There are also some advanced features left to implement like OAuth support, scripting (settings environment variables from response data), and a few others.

Thanks for the comment!

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

#25
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I'd like to see an API client that generates a API docs from a project / workspace.

Swagger UI seems to do a pretty decent job. The thing I like about swagger is you create one canonical description of your API and model and then generate postman collections, API docs, and client/server stubs all from the same source.

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Executionable which won't run on my machine (Fedora) and not open source, guess I will be staying with Advance Rest Client then.

Hi there. Could you reach out to support@insomnia.rest with details? I'd love to help get this running for you. The linux build uses http://appimage.org/ which should support Fedora out of the box.
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