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Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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> Nice CLI Clients that use plain text files: Jetbrains Http Client, Hurl, Httpie In what way is Jetbrain's http client a CLI tool ? There's also vscode rest client. There's no need to shortsell other clients. I think Bruno has sufficient differentiators to standout on its own.

Sorry if it came across as trying to shortsell. I was just trying to point out the key thing that makes Bruno unique in the ecosystem

I'm the maintainer of Hurl and was really graceful to be cited by you!

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in. Especially once a VC gets into the fold.

Hey there, this is Anoop - creator of Bruno. Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them. We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping

> An API client is not venture scale.

Your link makes sense, and I believe you. Have struggled with similar issues. But who knows what the future will bring? Google once said "don't be evil"; Oracle bought Sun. Is there any way you can guarantee your future actions? Contracts, articles of association/company constitution? Maybe setup a trust or charity? I don't think there is.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Lately Postman suddenly required creating an account to their cloud, to use my five different rest requests from scratchpad. I got annoyed so bad that deleted that piece of cr*p immediately. Never looking back.

Then I found Bruno and fell in love. Thanks for the great work!

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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While we are at it, is there a nice tool to document (foreign) APIs in a collaborative way? Maybe using Markup Language? Shared via Git? There are so many undocumented APIs there, that i use daily and it is good to put my annotations anywhere.

I think you may want to look at OpenAPI specs. It is yaml description of API and can be consumed by many tools.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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I 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/

Never "upgraded" from 3.4.0 and never going to. For now it works fine, but at some point I'm going to need to switch...

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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post #262

While we are at it, is there a nice tool to document (foreign) APIs in a collaborative way? Maybe using Markup Language? Shared via Git? There are so many undocumented APIs there, that i use daily and it is good to put my annotations anywhere.

I think you may want to look at OpenAPI specs. It is yaml description of API and can be consumed by many tools.

No, these APIs have mostly generated docs from code, they are just bad, and i want something, that is documented around it. Like a wiki.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Hey everyone, this is Anoop - creator of Bruno. Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN! I will try to address some common questions in this comment. > Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in. Especially once a VC gets into the fold. We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date…

Did you design the logo? I saw it and immediately wanted to buy a license! Great product!

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Funny. I just found Bruno two weeks ago after getting fed up with Insomnia and am loving it. It feels like what Postman and Insomnia were when they started. Simple and to the point. There are a few minor features I miss (being able to bulk edit headers is the main one), but overall I highly recommend it.

You can do that by editing the collection file directly , Bruno watches for file system changes on the collection folder

Ah, that's good to know. I'm definitely going to use that trick. I'd still love to have a first class way to do that though.
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