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Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by rapsey »

CommonGuy wrote: post #12
3np wrote: post #3

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/

Yes, Kreya is closed source. We explain our reasons in https://kreya.app/blog/why-kreya-isnt-open-source (which got us mixed responses). Regarding telemetry, we are very open about what we collect and only use anonymized data.

People commenting online is a specific subset of the customer base and general population. They will lean open source/anti-business/linux-desktop way more than those things are relevant in the real world. From online discussions one would think desktop linux is incredibly important, when in fact it is pretty irrelevant.

Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by CrimsonRain »

CommonGuy wrote: post #13
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/

Correct, the Kreya UI is inspired by Insomnia. Some of the differences are the more complete gRPC support, how API authentication is handled and how the project data is stored.

I'm not interested about gRPC right now.

API auth is complicated in insomnia, but there is a clever way to use variables/env to solve it once and for all. So that's also a non-issue in this comparison.

Insomnia UI/UX is still much better/prettier (Postman is ugly + bad UX).

So the only great point for now is how the data is stored. I don't know why Insomnia hasn't fixed this on their end yet; their sync is so bad because of this.

This point makes me interested in trying out your app but I already have large projects on Insomnia. How can I transfer (import) any of them to quickly give it a go and evaluate? Do you (plan to) support any import feature?

Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by codebeaker »

Postman, since they raised money have really lost their way in my opinion. The tool gets harder to use, with a more cluttered UI in every release. Seemingly random UI decisions make it awful to use.

Glad to see competition in the space, but I doubt that Kreya can claim to be a "postman alternative" unless it has 75% feature parity with Postman, simply because the range of ways people use Postman is so broad, that it's an unverifiable claim.

Unless Kreya can do teams, testing, scripting, sharing, reviews, forking, publishing secret-link API docs, generating example API code out of the docs in Ruby/Python/etc, it certainly isn't an _alternative_ to Postman for my team's use-cases.

Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by twohaibei »

jesse_faden wrote: post #16

I have a love - hate relationship with Postman. Mostly because it’s super slow to use. I’ve been trying to find an alternative for long. But Postman has some nice things which it does really well. 1. Variables / Dynamic Variables 2. GraphQL introspection 3. Pre/Post request scripts 4. Collection Runner Postman is pretty expensive for larger teams. That makes it horrible to collaborate because then you’d just be shari…

I was on the same boat and found Insomnia app pretty good.

Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by 9dev »

jesse_faden wrote: post #16

I have a love - hate relationship with Postman. Mostly because it’s super slow to use. I’ve been trying to find an alternative for long. But Postman has some nice things which it does really well. 1. Variables / Dynamic Variables 2. GraphQL introspection 3. Pre/Post request scripts 4. Collection Runner Postman is pretty expensive for larger teams. That makes it horrible to collaborate because then you’d just be shari…

If you’re on a Mac, I can recommend Paw (https://paw.cloud) - they have a native client that is super fast, provides great features and advanced dynamic values, and is just a joy to use.

Don’t know about the GraphQL story, however.

Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by foxbee »

Hey

This looks really cool. The pricing confused me a little to begin with. Pricing per individual vs pricing per user feels sort of the same when at first glanced.

This may just be my silly opinion but thought i'd offer my feedback as it might help.

Re: Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative

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Post by yetanother-1 »

CrimsonRain wrote: post #22
CommonGuy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct, the Kreya UI is inspired by Insomnia. Some of the differences are the more complete gRPC support, how API authentication is handled and how the project data is stored.

I'm not interested about gRPC right now. API auth is complicated in insomnia, but there is a clever way to use variables/env to solve it once and for all. So that's also a non-issue in this comparison. Insomnia UI/UX is still much better/prettier (Postman is ugly + bad UX). So the only great point for now is how the data is stored. I don't know why Insomnia hasn't fixed this on their end yet; their sync is so bad bec…

Yeah, where is the import options?

Do you guys think you will only gain new customers that are ready to start from 0?

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