I've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/ Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
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Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#52I’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in
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Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#53I have found Bruno ( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ) to be a decent basic alternative with a nice bonus of being version control friendly, keep in mind that it's fresh and relatively unpolished though - for instance it doesn't ask you to save changes before closing the app.
This one is free from VC funding and promises to stay away from it. So it should not suffer from enshittification.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#54I'm sure it's a bug, they have nothing to gain from it, especially if there's no warning about this. It's also a good reminder for everyone to back up everything!
It's not a bug to release a version which removed a massive chunk of functionality. It's intentionally fucking over their users who are not willing to create an account.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#55Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
But is there a VS Code extension for curl?!!? Does it work with ChatGPT?
I think you're joking, but I actually want to know these things when adopting tools now to the extent that it's applicable.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#56I’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in
Sorry, but they pulled a Postman already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 No reason to trust them at all at this point.
Weird. Mine doesn't, and it's been 8 days since that post. I even checked for updates, and I'm up to date. Maybe they reverted their bone head move? (I don't use it daily)
EDIT: Maybe they did. See last comment here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#57So they quickly followed what their competitor Insomnia did recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326
Insomnia doesn’t wipe out your stuff if you don’t create an account though.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curl is not sufficient for rapid experimentation against an API.
Depends how comfortable you are with curl and your workflow. I'm much more productive using curl vs any GUI you give me. Still have OpenAPI specs in my projects but curl is much faster initially.
It falls apart instantly when you need to pass data from one endpoint to another or add any sort of logic like filtering through data - so any time you have non-trivial workloads where you don't want to spend half your time fighting against jq or shell.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#59We’re building an open-source Postman alternative. 1.6m+ users, 100k+ monthly active users, 55k+ GitHub stars. Web app: https://hoppscotch.io GitHub: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
But you raised VC funding right? Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory. Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react. Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figure…
If it's just a "glorified curl UI" what's the problem? Just use curl, or build your own, if it's so trivial.
You are kicking the tires awfully hard for a solution to a problem you claim is easy.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#60Am I crazy for using curl and editing the shell cmdline with vim when I need to work with lots of headers?