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Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

Thanks for posting this! I did a lot of API work in Python last fall and I was just using curl because, as far as I could tell, none of the other clients (Postman, hoppskotch, insomnia etc) were fully offline.

Bruno looks fantastic and it is only $9 USD for a preorder license right now. That is a pretty good deal to support this work.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Symphytum https://github.com/giowck/symphytum

A small cross-platform personal GUI database app for desktop, with support for images. A modern riff on the idea of MS Access (for those old enough to remember). I think I saw someone claim it's a clone of some Mac app, but I'm not a Mac person so I have no idea if that's true. It's my go-to app when I want to do some shopping research/comparison and collect my results, and I'm not yet sure what fields I will need in the DB. I like it more for that purpose than a spreadsheet.

The repo is archived (unfortunately), but the binary releases work for me for now.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

This does deserve more recognition but unfortunately we don’t talk about Bruno

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways):

https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc

And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to be a fast favorite and finally let me clear out my mess of tabs/bookmarks: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

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