Damn, I wasn't sure if I cared about another postman/insomnia like tool, but I saw the cute dog logo, and it sold the tool to me. Maybe I am just silly, but that got me. Congrats to the team for developing it!
Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
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#12Postman story:
Layoff happened, and we didn't yet have our postman software in our list of services to remove employees from. This is not Postman's fault.
One person had "deleted" all his collections and workspaces after the layoff to clear his laptop of all things related to our company. After we got an email from Postman saying our workspaces were deleted, I removed the laid off users. Since I removed the laid off user, the "trash bin" associated with them was also deleted. Postman support restored all the collections but the "environment" was gone. Which was all of our QA test keys, etc...
Our Postman collections are still in shambles after that, and we don't have any employees to manage it anymore. While I totally don't hold Postman accountable - there is definitely a reason why "no-cloud" is a good way to go with these kinds of tools.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#13Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
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#14Looks great
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#15I'm tired of Postman freezing when sending JSONs over a MB in size. I had to purge it from the system a couple times because the tab wouldn't even load on start up making the whole thing unresponsive.
I hope Bruno works better in that regard.
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#16Looks great!
Postman dug its own grave after selling out itself for VC money. The “File over app” philosophy is a direction that we should be supporting after the Post-ZIRP VC money world.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#17Golden Edition in the pricing page is listed twice, it looks like the middle column should read "Individual plan"
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#18I myself use Paw [0] because it's native to MacOS, but I'm a little bit worried for it's longevity as it being supported by a SaaS business. But so far it's been great to document API for my personal projects. [0]: https://paw.cloud/
Second vote for Paw. I also was not happy about the buyout. It has some quirks, but pretty awesome overall.
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#19Very tempting! But, will there be a lifetime version/license? Would rather pay upfront instead of ending up potentially not really using it much for 2 years.
It looks like the pricing page has lifetime licenses only.
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#20I have nothing against this app or the other graphical HTTP tools like Postman, Insomnia, etc., as people clearly get value out of them, but personally, I've moved everything over to Hurl --> hurl.dev
- Open source
- Text files all the way down
- Easily understood DSL
- Easily distributed
- Easily versioned
- Fast
Download the executable, copy the two lines below into "first-test.hurl" and you're up and running.
GET http://localhost:3000
HTTP 200