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Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by madduci »

I appreciate there's a new tool in the block, but I still don't understand why none put JMeter as a competitor in this list.

I was using Postman myself and I got really upset about their change and forced limitations, on the other hand I understand their needs to charge people for monetisation.

The most upsetting thing about Postman was the impossibility to use multiple client certificates for TLS authentication, but only one for domain.

Although JMeter isn't as pleasant as the other tools are, speaking of UI, it is capable of supporting multiple protocols and there are no limitations in using TLS certificates or checks.

Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by markcollin »

twen_ty wrote: post #12

That VC funding table is everything that's absurdly wrong with VC money. How TF is Postman worth $434M at $5.6B valuation?

To put things into perspective MS bought "GitHub" (which has a monopoly on oss hosting) in 2018 for 7.5b

and Postman (a gui client) is at 5.6b. mind-bogglingly insane. I'd love to be enlightened on why is postman valued so much. what is d endgame here?

Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by __natty__ »

I like the simplicity of Bruno and that the author is aware why devs liked the Postman and Insomnia. I will wait however until it will mature a little more as my huge project in Insomnia can’t be imported (I guess because I left empty names to see directly URLs and Bruno doesn’t allow that).

Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by brokensoul98 »

__natty__ wrote: post #14

I like the simplicity of Bruno and that the author is aware why devs liked the Postman and Insomnia. I will wait however until it will mature a little more as my huge project in Insomnia can’t be imported (I guess because I left empty names to see directly URLs and Bruno doesn’t allow that).

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Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by markcollin »

ushakov wrote: post #5
markcollin wrote: post #3

Interesting. glad to see the transparency. oss monetization is really hard. sadly, most dev's don't pay for dev tooling. really liking Bruno so far. Also I don't think a gui client would need vc funding. The pressure to show returns is what turns them to bloatware and saas. I would pay for supporter edition if they go that route. tired of switching tools every 2 years.

There is no pressure if you don’t need much money and get it from right people, who know the deal upfront

Like? If I understand you raise outside only if you plan to scale and give a great return; otherwise it is better to bootstrap right?

Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by helloanoop »

__natty__ wrote: post #14

I like the simplicity of Bruno and that the author is aware why devs liked the Postman and Insomnia. I will wait however until it will mature a little more as my huge project in Insomnia can’t be imported (I guess because I left empty names to see directly URLs and Bruno doesn’t allow that).

Hi there! This is Anoop. Glad that you like Bruno. On the import issue you mentioned, its due to the architecture choice of Bruno where every request is stored on the filesystem as a file. I don't have a solution in mind, perhaps the a reasonable approach is to fallback to "Untitled" at the time of import.

Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by helloanoop »

markcollin wrote: post #13
twen_ty wrote: post #12

That VC funding table is everything that's absurdly wrong with VC money. How TF is Postman worth $434M at $5.6B valuation?

To put things into perspective MS bought "GitHub" (which has a monopoly on oss hosting) in 2018 for 7.5b and Postman (a gui client) is at 5.6b. mind-bogglingly insane. I'd love to be enlightened on why is postman valued so much. what is d endgame here?

I think the core reason is their monopoly and having over 20 million developers using their tool, and the hope that they can monetize this in future.

But yes $5.6b is nuts.

Re: Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives

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Post by helloanoop »

markcollin wrote: post #3

Interesting. glad to see the transparency. oss monetization is really hard. sadly, most dev's don't pay for dev tooling. really liking Bruno so far. Also I don't think a gui client would need vc funding. The pressure to show returns is what turns them to bloatware and saas. I would pay for supporter edition if they go that route. tired of switching tools every 2 years.

Thanks for your vote of confidence!
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