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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.

Just curious, what’s your gripe with Insomnia? I find its UX a little clunky at times but haven’t found anything limiting my use cases.

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

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Basically because of "blah but it is Java!" kind of argument. SoapUI is great.

And the "SOAP" part of the name is not helping either.

I found it uncomfortable to watch it making a request once someone pointed out to me that it highlighted letters in the order SOPA when waiting for a response

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We used Postman but it got forbidden in our org for that reason, so no more. Can't say I really miss it. I personally prefer just using a jupyter notebook for these kinds of tasks. With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data. Maybe you want to decode it if it is on a binary format. Or you want to plot some basic stats?

I've always preferred Insomnia over Postman. The interface fits me better. But now they also started requiring cloud login, so maybe I'll give Bruno a try if it degrades further

Insomnia has an open source fork from before all the cloud bulls*t: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

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

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Hi Annop. Thanks for sharing this looks like a good alternative to Postman. I see the company is based out of India (awesome) but wanted to know if the company has gone through the steps needed to sell to teams in the healthcare industry in the US/UK i.e.) HIPPA, SOX2, PCI, GDPR, etc.…

If they never take possession of the user's data into their environment, then most, if not all of those don't even come into play? Like, that's kinda the whole point of offline-first, local-only tools, you can 100% use them in a an environment you control and take responsibility for. Once you take control of customer's data, there's a whole litany of due diligence that must considered, and often at considerable cost.

While I agree with you and understand that the data is local only, we can only use tools approved by the company. I would like to suggest that my team take Bruno for a 3 – 6 month test drive (since Postman was unable to check the boxes) but cannot without approval….

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

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Team options are behind the paywall. Besides, bruno is simply better.

Not necessarily so. We don’t pay but our small team still shares projects with the tool.

Sure, its possible, not exactly great experience though.

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I find interesting on how on a startup related forum, anything related with not paying is always celebrated.

Once CEO asked me: "why are you spending months of your valuable time to create a tool to solve a thing, instead paying $10/month?" "I know developers never pay, but why?"

It's not the money, it's the control you relinquish in the process. The potential costs of the risks involved are much, much greater than $10/month.

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!

Insomnia did the same. There was an option to migrate to an offline account but the migration did not work.

So I turned to Bruno. I have been happy with it but there are some strange issues. Sometimes it does not save settings when I press Ctrl s. I still don't know when this happens but I lost some work a couple of times because of this.

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

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I find interesting on how on a startup related forum, anything related with not paying is always celebrated.

Startups are often all about disrupting an industry by lowering the cost of a product. If you can lower it to zero that demonstrates the incumbent businesses are obviously not providing a valuable service that's worth paying for.

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

#309

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!

Imagine this cloud enshitification reaches everything else. You need a cloud account to curl or wget, use ffmpeg or simply sed lol
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