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

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

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Post by fifilura »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #360
fifilura wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data. 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…

I think it was pretty obvious I was referring to Postman.

I don't have time to look at a 15 minute marketing ("BILLION dollar") video. Is it available in text form?

Does Bruno decode e.g. AVRO or protobuf? Connect to a schema server?

What is considered "human readable"? A JSON file like postman?

Could you elaborate what is the benefit of using this tool compared to a REPL/notebook?

Are you affiliated with Bruno?

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

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Post by fullspectrumdev »

mr_mitm wrote: post #323
helloanoop wrote: post #236

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…

I love your approach and your attitude. VC funding seems to poison everything it touches eventually.

I can’t think of very many products or companies that the dread hand of the VC firms actually improved, unless it was founder/exec payouts.

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

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

fifilura wrote: post #361
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data. 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…

I think it was pretty obvious I was referring to Postman. I don't have time to look at a 15 minute marketing ("BILLION dollar") video. Is it available in text form? Does Bruno decode e.g. AVRO or protobuf? Connect to a schema server? What is considered "human readable"? A JSON file like postman? Could you elaborate what is the benefit of using this tool compared to a REPL/notebook? Are you affiliated with Bruno?

You are putting up all these hypotheticals as if all the info isn't easily available on Bruno's site, and then declare "I don't have time to watch a 15 minute video". Hint, youtube 2x and transcripts are your friend.

I didn't know about Bruno until I saw this post on HN.

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

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Post by fifilura »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #363
fifilura wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it was pretty obvious I was referring to Postman. I don't have time to look at a 15 minute marketing ("BILLION dollar") video. Is it available in text form? Does Bruno decode e.g. AVRO or protobuf? Connect to a schema server? What is considered "human readable"? A JSON file like postman? Could you elaborate what is the benefit of using this tool compared to a REPL/notebook? Are you affiliated with Bruno?

You are putting up all these hypotheticals as if all the info isn't easily available on Bruno's site, and then declare "I don't have time to watch a 15 minute video". Hint, youtube 2x and transcripts are your friend. I didn't know about Bruno until I saw this post on HN.

I dont know how to answer this rant. Other than that you missed a chance to convince me.

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

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

fifilura wrote: post #364
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are putting up all these hypotheticals as if all the info isn't easily available on Bruno's site, and then declare "I don't have time to watch a 15 minute video". Hint, youtube 2x and transcripts are your friend. I didn't know about Bruno until I saw this post on HN.

I dont know how to answer this rant. Other than that you missed a chance to convince me.

Why don't you just rtfm? I'm not interested in "convincing" you, you're free to proudly declare that you refuse to read the docs, and you have an odd definition of "rant".

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

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

cedws wrote: post #354
yard2010 wrote: post #309

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

Crunch of capitalism. Anything that provides value can be turned into something that generates money. Not many people will walk away from money out of the goodness of their heart.

> Anything that provides value can be turned into something that generates money.

I don't have much of a problem with that. Heck, looks like Bruno has multiple tiers that they sell the product for, and it looks like a very reasonable way to make money.

The problem is this idea of "infinite growth" that modern markets demand, which results in the eventual enshittification of nearly all tech products these days. Postman could have had a very nice, reasonable business, but once they took an obscene amount of funding (nearly half a BILLION dollars, for an API client tool!!!) their fate was sealed. Beyond taking too much money, Postman clearly thought they had a much bigger moat than they actually do.

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

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Post by fifilura »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #365
fifilura wrote: post #364

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know how to answer this rant. Other than that you missed a chance to convince me.

Why don't you just rtfm? I'm not interested in "convincing" you, you're free to proudly declare that you refuse to read the docs, and you have an odd definition of "rant".

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

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Post by jagtstronaut »

I just switched to Bruno because apparently if you have a secret in the “initial values” column it uploads it to their cloud automatically.

It is cool so far. I like that it is more git friendly. I have noticed an increase in request time which is interesting. I assume because postman caches more stuff.

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

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Post by antifa »

ianberdin wrote: post #299
pjmlp wrote: post #287

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?"

For a lot of people, it's "Why pay $10/ month for something marginally more useful than a folder of bash files?"
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