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What we really need is a community-driven alternative without lock-in. Many other use cases are covered by great FOSS products, but somehow API clients are abused as a sync cash cow:

- insomnia deliberately broke a 3rd party sync: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync

- I could go on

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(minor correction, Obsidian broke the 3rd party sync, not insomnia) Point still stands.

I agree it's an annoying problem, but it's hard to see a way around it. The developers was that they need some way to fund development. Sync tends to be the up sell target since it's more for power users willing to pay.

There are quite a few open source Insomnia and Postman clones. Since most of them operate on config and workspaces, I think syncthing is good enough for this use case at least.

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