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Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by BoorishBears »

bobobob420 wrote: post #34
BoorishBears wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you raised VC funding right? Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory. Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react. Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figure…

Postman is also open source lol. Unless its donation driven without funding its all going to be the same.

Did you read my comment? (Also Postman is not open source, it just has some open source pieces)

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

bobobob420 wrote: post #34
BoorishBears wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you raised VC funding right? Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory. Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react. Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figure…

Postman is also open source lol. Unless its donation driven without funding its all going to be the same.

It's not open source, only some of the components are.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by S04dKHzrKT »

pests wrote: post #27

There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data. Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Syntax looks like: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name":…

Jetbrains IDEs also have builtin support for HTTP files.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/10/intellij-idea-2023-3...

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.ht...

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by hummusFiend »

CommonGuy wrote: post #20

As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app . It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally. As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.

Kreya is the only alternative I've used that prioritizes gRPC support (along with REST). Regardless of source availability, thank you for creating this!

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by user3939382 »

Highly recommend the HTTP client in the JetBrains IDEs. I looked carefully at the standalones in this category and IMHO it’s the best. Text based so you can seamlessly manage everything with your repo, with automatic features built in from parsing the text.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by eddd-ddde »

blahyawnblah wrote: post #22

I've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/ Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.

On windows I even got to enjoy using Invoke-WebRequest directly. Extremely useful since powershell has structured output and input.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

maniflames wrote: post #42

I’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in

Sorry, but they pulled a Postman already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126

No reason to trust them at all at this point.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by stronglikedan »

maniflames wrote: post #42

I’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in

I lost everything in a update with them too. And not a create-account update. Just a regular update one day, and poof gone.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by e-master »

pests wrote: post #27

There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data. Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Syntax looks like: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name":…

I use it too - it’s excellent, I’d think most developers don’t need more than this.
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