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Comment by DrBenCarson | Hacker News Reader

The industry has largely moved to [Bruno](https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)

My whole organization picked up Bruno after the whole Postman fiasco. I've found Bruno to be very unpolished and buggy. We've run into bugs where the UI will show one value, but when the request sends it uses a previously overwritten variable.

Looking forward to having to move to something else, again.. sigh

Insomnia creator has a new one called Yaak that is open source.

Yes, But.

It doesn't seem like the worst - yet - but Bruno also ramped up their monetization. So far it seems survivable. But given how things have gone before, it's unclear how viable Bruno will really remain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170934

Are these applications forever doomed? First Postman, then Insomnia, now Bruno...

HTTPie is imo the best one now.

Been on the old CLI version of HTTPie for years now. Or are you talking about the GUI version?

Yeah I started using the GUI version, there’s a standalone app or the in browser one. I don’t know why all of these web request clients have been trying to sell enterprise features instead of just giving you a gui to make a quick request.

Hmm, I didn’t hear about this! What about that lifetime Bruno thing that was $9? I’m pretty sure I bought that. Is that just nothing now or what does that get me?

Bruno's pricing has changed recently, the lifetime offer is not available anymore. Prices tiers are: free, $6/month, $11/month [1]. Bruno's developers explained it was necessary to sustain Bruno's growth.

[1]: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing

> growth

It's an http client... Itonically I think curl has grown to become so pervasive that it's common parlance to "curl something" to a large extent because haxx thankfully has a radically different approach.

Bruno slowly changed the policy from "we are all free" to "we are mostly free" to "pay for feature A, B, C"

Understandable, but feals like being tricked into something.

this is (at least) the third time we've seen this in this exact space: Postman, Insomnia, Bruno.

At this point I just use the REST client extension in VS Code (Rider has one too) or HURL. The lack of GUI makes it a little tougher for new people, but file-based is nice, and in the end I have much stronger skills & understanding in the area.

They explicitly sold themselves as an Insomnia alt.

Here is their usage graph: https://star-history.com/#usebruno/bruno&Date

Insomnia introduced account shenanigans around the end of Sept 23: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590

The features you pay for are just GUI features. All of the things are still accessible in the terminal or IDE.

I moved to Bruno for being local, but even before being polished, I see it's taking the cloud route

How so? In their README they specifically state:

> Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here <https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269>.

I glanced over that github discussion and don't see where they've gone back on that statement. Am I just missing where they've taken the cloud route?

They haven’t, yet. https://royathan.com/blog/the-api-client-hunt/

The industry being who? Because this is the first time I've heard of Bruno? And what does it do that the others don't?

You should ask instead "What does it NOT do that the others do?"

I just care what it does.

How does you arrive at a conclusion like this? Based on what metrics?

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