Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

#1

Post by CommonGuy » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 7:05 AM UTC

Hi HN! For over a year we've been working on Kreya. At first, it only supported gRPC, because the alternative tools (eg. BloomRPC) were very limited in their functionality. Since then, we have added many features, trying hard to keep the UI clean while still supporting advanced use cases.

Yesterday, we released Kreya v1.8, which added support for REST!

In our opinion, Kreya is a good alternative to the existing tools out there. Sure, it may not support all the features that Postman has. But we think that Kreya has some innovative approaches (eg. authentication or API importers) that users may find interesting.

Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative
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#2

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

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#3

Post by 3np » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:31 AM UTC

The app consists of a closed-source binary, so not different from Postman in this regard.

Telemetry is opt-out and the gathered data points don't seem problematic to me: https://kreya.app/docs/telemetry/

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#4

Post by cube2222 » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:41 AM UTC

This looks very similar to Insomnia[0]. How does Kreya compare with it?

It also supports generated data, environments, references, and expiring references which might trigger a different http call to get a new value for them.

[0]:https://insomnia.rest/

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#5

Post by vaylian » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:42 AM UTC

I have no idea what postman (or gRPC) is. Could you add a short explanation in your post?

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#6

Post by yellowapple » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:42 AM UTC

Any relation to the character from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2?

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Post by elcapitan » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:44 AM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #4

This looks very similar to Insomnia[0]. How does Kreya compare with it? It also supports generated data, environments, references, and expiring references which might trigger a different http call to get a new value for them. [0]: https://insomnia.rest/

There are comparison pages in the footer, eg https://kreya.app/comparisons/insomnia

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#8

Post by CommonGuy » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:48 AM UTC

yellowapple wrote: post #6

Any relation to the character from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2?

That relation is not on purpose, we found that after we decided on a name.

We went through the list of islands on Wikipedia and changed some letters (and even forgot on which island the name Kreya is based on).

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Post by RamRodification » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:50 AM UTC

CommonGuy wrote: post #8

yellowapple wrote: post #6

Any relation to the character from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2?

That relation is not on purpose, we found that after we decided on a name. We went through the list of islands on Wikipedia and changed some letters (and even forgot on which island the name Kreya is based on).

I think you are based in Germany. Was it https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreta ?

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Post by elcapitan » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:51 AM UTC

I like that the product page has comparisons to Postman, Insomnia etc on the bottom, but it could be more on point (e.g. a table).

Overall it looks quite well done, although personally I don't have a real reason to use it over Insomnia.