Posted by sidgarimella 1 day ago
Anyway, I'm sure somewhere in some terms and conditions I agreed to, it says "we own the glass".
There's also one available as a major mode for Emacs: https://melpa.org/#/restclient
If the command line is acceptable but you want more of a focus on usability than curl has, there's httpie (https://httpie.io/) and its clone xh (https://github.com/ducaale/xh).
relevant article
That's just one use case but I feel like such tools lost a lot of the relevance because of LLMs.
It's like saying cars are obsolete now because you only used yours to go to the church and use your bike for that now
Don't know about Postman, but Bruno has much more to offer. In our team we use an exported shared collection (stored in github) of all the extensive APIs of all the apps we share or even those we just use so that anyone can just import that and use them
Older versions are fine, though.
They just all seem like things that developers would easily ditch. But up until now, I was also still stuck on postman because my team/org uses it as a knowledge repository. It’s just classic enshittification. They’re using high switching costs to make as much money as possible without everybody leaving. Who
Bruno [1] is the current better alternative to Insomnia.
I have a sense that a dumb Web API testing UI application is really not that hard to get AI to implement. These apps all look about the same for a reason. So maybe there will be a prevailing FOSS option that isn't trying to monetize.
FYI the license terms only apply to the prebuilt binaries. You can build and run from source for any use (including commercial), for free.
Happy to answer any questions as well.
I'm for the most part just jaded about it all because I've seen Postman and Insomnia slowly boil the frog with increased pushiness towards logins and monetization. If a project is trying to make money at all, I feel it will inevitably grapple with the same issues. Especially for the kind of product where we can have five different options for in the comments section already. But I hope you do succeed in maintaining an honourable revenue stream.
long-time engineer here, begging others to reconsider this attitude. Engineering work has value, engineers deserve to be paid for their time, and the community will have better software if engineers are able to get paid for their time.
Is there another profession where charging a fair price for a product is looked on with derision the way it is with software?
It's built by a former Postmanaut, me!
I really like that you can paste a curl in to setup a new request.
This is definitely the type of app that some AI agent could cobble together pretty quickly, so I don't know why Postman etc thinks they have enough of a moat to keep enshittifying their product.
I remember, because I'm still irritated about that. They hid your collections and forced you to create a cloud account to keep using the app.
Circumvention of the trust model of the agent harnesses (the hash), prompt injection and silently registering an outbound remote MCP endpoint
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362993 https://milkman.dev/
Postman also removed the ability to export individual requests and grouped them into "Share" which means now you have to get a subscription to get your data out, and most export options are gone completely, except for collections itself - which they ask you questions why before you can get your data out. Fuck Postman. I moved to Insomnia as of last night (open source).