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Perpetual license - nice. I do not buy software subscriptions for my development tools. Only perpetual. In cases like Postman - sure I'll take free version but I was holding off from doing anything serious with it.
All data local only - even nicer.
Ported couple of requests from Postman. All works.
Congrats. Unless I hit some stones during testing I will be buying license when available
Most likely Postman will go to trash bin very soon
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…
- The need for multimaps to represent duplicate keys
- The need for annotations to ascribe additional information about a key-value pairI really like IDEA's .http files [1] Very similar idea as Bruno: everything is configured in text, which I always find myself more productive in that full blown GUI where I need to tab from edit text to edit text to get anything don. [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...
They are plaintext and can be easily diffed and they don't invent a totally new language.
The extension also supports somewhat esoteric features like client certificates, which I already needed.
So I'd be more interested in a comparison between bruno and .http than insomnia.
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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!
Imagine this cloud enshitification reaches everything else. You need a cloud account to curl or wget, use ffmpeg or simply sed lol
I find interesting on how on a startup related forum, anything related with not paying is always celebrated.
I find interesting on how on a startup related forum, anything related with not paying is always celebrated.
Being non-free is a defect that can always be improved, best technology is always free and something you don't need to think to use.
Can someone explain what Postman or Bruno is for? I know it's something for interacting with apis but why would i use it. I interact with apis a lot with curl or wrapper in my languages but never really needed something else?
We have multiple environments with multiple parallel versions (think like dev/staging/prod and current/legacy), these deployments mostly have the same API with slightly different urls and credentials
We use multiple environments to easily switch between the various versions both for one-off operations (like a clear cache call that only needs to be called few times a year in response to external actions) and to manually test features.
I can see why not everybody would have this use case
Iirc Bruno does not have enough environment/variables/pre-post-request scripting support
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…
Its really not clear what features like:
- "Performance/Load Testing"
- "Load Data from File for Collection Run"
etc..., are since there is no mention of those in either an upcoming features page or documentation.
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!
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?
Not sure if you're referring to Postman or Bruno. The biggest purported benefit of Bruno over Postman is that it saves API request collection files in simple, human-readable text files that are designed to be committed to a source control repo and easily shared, in a way that's not particularly tied to the Bruno app.
The demo video explains in detail: https://youtu.be/b_ctmKlEOXg