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Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs

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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.

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

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

and discussed here:

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

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.

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

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

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

You did not.

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

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

https://httpie.io/app

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

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

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)

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

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

https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

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

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

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

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.

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