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What eventually will happen is that someone will get fed up and build an open-source alternative on Github. Rinse, repeat.

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Insomnia is already pretty good. Other alternatives are also present that cater to basic usage (most of them as browser plugins).

Can vouch for insomnia, have been using it for a long time now and it's been great.

In-somnia is in-credible... And allowing import from postman collections means I've never once looked back.

Postman is quickly trending towards bloatware, where _most_ people just want it for is for a GUI for curl and to share APIs across teams, but Postman becomes more and more bloated with "enterprise" features to justify valuations, while losing focus on the core demo that first adopted it!

[1]: https://insomnia.rest/ (hattip for the domain name as well ;) )

The space is already crowded, though (many of them being open source), for example Insomnia, Paw, Fiddler, Hoppscotch, and even Thunder Client (a VS Code extension). I suspect that the Postman investors are privy to information that warrant the investment (plus the economic climate being what it is).

Charles proxy too (paid)

They did their is insomnia iirc and another one. And script friendly stuff like httpie. And ide stuff like httpclient. That's stupidly high valuation

There are already quite a few, a JavaFX for those with Electron allergy and there are VSCode plugins for the Electron lovers.

For the rest of us there is curl and Powershell Web-Request.

Holy shit I thought the valuation was stupidly high at 225m, now Ive reread 5.6b, that's more than fastly market cap ffs insanity

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