Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs (github.com)

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Might I suggest that once you recover from your cold you redo the audio on your demo video? Or at least edit all the coughs out?

Otherwise, looks great! Been looking for a trustworthy opensource replacement for a while since Postman went to crap and the Insomnia owners revealed they can't be trusted.

beeburrt 2y ago ↗

There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

markcollin 2y ago ↗

forks are harder to maintain (specially when the original is still active) i wish them luck. prolly the best approach for people who want to use insomnia is to downgrade and keep using an older version.

pseudalopex 2y ago ↗

It isn't trustworthy to call software with undocumented telemetry fully offline.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37697206

helloanoop 2y ago ↗

I understand the concern. We will support disabling the visit count telemetry in the upcoming release.

pseudalopex 2y ago ↗

You did not.

helloanoop 2y ago ↗

Yes, the demo needs to be redone. Glad that you like Bruno.

dang 2y ago ↗

Recent and related:

Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701803 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

also:

Show HN: Bruno – open-source API Client (alternative to postman)) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33241941 - Oct 2022 (6 comments)

stoicjumbotron 2y ago ↗

While not open source, I found HTTPie a good alternative to Postman.

https://httpie.io/app

Nezteb 2y ago ↗

On the bright side, the HTTPie CLI is open-source: https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/LICENSE

jkbr 2y ago ↗

Once the codebase and architecture stabilize, we’ll likely open source HTTPie Desktop too.

deconstruct 2y ago ↗

Looks good. Nice and simple. Its what Postman started as and should have stayed as.

helloanoop 2y ago ↗

Happy to see Bruno trending on HN.

I had recently penned some thoughts on opensource sustainability, the early days and the future plans of Bruno in this discussion thread: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

markcollin 2y ago ↗

happy user of bruno here, love the project and the local only file based approach (no cloud bullshit-have had enough of it)

looks like the app has struck a chord with many folks, seeing a lot of hn posts & discussions in the last week around bruno

helloanoop 2y ago ↗

Glad that you like, Bruno! Yes, there has been a huge uptick in interest in Bruno. It was very hard to get visibility in a saturated market, but now since we have some, people are seeing the benefits of a local only architecture that Bruno provides.

It's not just the uptick in interest, we received a whopping 25 PRs to improve Bruno is the last 5 days alone, and I have merged 21 already and released them. Really grateful to the community.

CommonGuy 2y ago ↗

There is also https://kreya.app, which has more features, but is closed-source

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sberder 2y ago ↗

I'm pretty sure restfox (https://restfox.dev) was shared on HN before. Very similar to postman.

https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox