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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Here is a video that shows how to get access to your data without an account. https://www.loom.com/share/de7af6f9e06b4452a799a033604f9270?...

How about a disclaimer that you're the one that caused this mess? You're the CTO of Kong ...

They already noted that in a well-read comment at the top of the post already, and continuing to be outraged at them in this thread is more likely to convince them to disregard your viewpoint than it is to change their mind.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Thanks! This looks great! I like the local first (or local only) approach of your tool. It's very refreshing in comparison to the bloated monsters like campfire or postman

yup! every postman alternative just follows postman playbook starts as offline vc funding enables cloud sync for collaboration with teams deprecates offline as scratchpad deletes scratchpad Its been like this for a decade now. With Bruno the key insight was to store collections and requests as folders and files, and design a markup language that makes it easy to collaborate with your team. I wrote about this here: ht…

How do you avoid that at Bruno v1.0.0 ? I means Postman playbook > vc funding

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Another app that's trying to do too much. All I want is a basic GUI for curl with some organization and templating. I ditched Postman because they decided to go all enterprise subscription model on us, apparently I'll have to ditch Insomnia too. What a shame.

Yeah, postman isn't something I'm operating in all day like vscode or my terminal. It's something I open ocasionally when I need to test a few endpoints and iterate on them.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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post #35

Marco here, CTO at Kong (the parent company of Insomnia). You will see some of my replies in the GitHub issue where this conversation is taking place. I want to clarify a couple of things: 1) Insomnia can still be used locally in any version prior to this one. The data is there, and can be used. 2) Insomnia still has a local-only mode (Scratch Pad) that doesn't require any account, that anybody can use. A collection…

Congrats on killing your business.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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post #132

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yup! every postman alternative just follows postman playbook starts as offline vc funding enables cloud sync for collaboration with teams deprecates offline as scratchpad deletes scratchpad Its been like this for a decade now. With Bruno the key insight was to store collections and requests as folders and files, and design a markup language that makes it easy to collaborate with your team. I wrote about this here: ht…

How do you avoid that at Bruno v1.0.0 ? I means Postman playbook > vc funding

MIT license. If the product is success and has significant devs following - they will just fork it from the commit before relicensing.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

Great product, thank you so much!

I am curious: why the request to support OpenAPI turned up only 2 weeks ago? In my bubble it is an ubiquitos format where everything starts and from where any additional data added up.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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post #6

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Not exactly the same, but I switched from Insomnia to Hurl. https://hurl.dev/

this is interesting, thank you

Thanks for mentioning Hurl [1] (maintainer here!)

If you're looking for a tool with a nice UI, Hurl might not be the ideal choice. We're focusing our tool on CLI usage and CI/CD integration.

On the other side, Hurl is a pure Open Source tool, we're not VC backed. The tool is given to the community by a big French telco, Orange, which use it and has no intention to be in the software business. In a word, there is less chance for Hurl to fell into Postman or Insomnia fate...

[1]: https://hurl.dev

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#139

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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post #108

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

Have you considered affiliating your project with the Linux Foundation or a similar organization?

Not yet. It's at a very early stage.
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