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I used to recommend https://insomnia.rest/ https://insomnia.rest/ as it was a free, sleek alternative... Alas it's been bought by Kong and enterprise'd up the s

by meibo 5y ago

I used to recommend https://insomnia.rest/ https://insomnia.rest/ as it was a free, sleek alternative... Alas it's been bought by Kong and enterprise'd up the same way. Not as bad yet, but can't be long.

vladvasiliu 5y ago
For the time being it's still OK. It asked me once to try the "premium" version or whatever it's called, I said no, and it never bothered me again. I don't know what licence Postman uses. A quick search on GitHub didn't turn up the source of the app on the Postman Labs page. Insomnia is MIT [0], so it could still be forked if Kong got decided to stop supporting the free version. [0] https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/LICENSE https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/LICENSE
- chrisweekly 5y ago
  I still like Insomnia too.
- meibo 5y ago
  I actually wasn't aware of it being open source at all, thanks. It's not mentioned anywhere on their page, gives me a bit more confidence :)
pull_my_finger 5y ago
Why would you think Kong would spoil it? Their main product is an API gateway, it makes sense to have a nice HTTP client under their umbrella. Kong is also open source and almost all of their plugins are freely available. I actually tried (and still use) Insomnia _because_ it was affiliated with Kong. YMMV but I've had no complaints about Insomnia at all.
udfalkso 5y ago
Insomnia is great, I use it daily. Highly reccommend.
squeaky-clean 5y ago
Am I having a Mandela Effect moment or did Insomnia used to be Mac only? I remember seeing it a long time ago and being disappointed I couldn't use it. Now I'm doubting my memory, lol. Either way thanks for the recommendation/reminder for Insomnia, it looks so much better than the current version of postman.
- easton 5y ago
  You aren’t thinking of Paw, are you? https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/
- phunehehe0 5y ago
  You are not alone! I just checked the Git history and it seems we were indeed mistaken, at least since 2017. It might have been just hard to see from the website. "Insomnia is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and can be downloaded from http://insomnia.rest/download/ http://insomnia.rest/download/" https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de23f0964f34258385afe76 https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de2...

by meibo 5y ago

vladvasiliu 5y ago

For the time being it's still OK. It asked me once to try the "premium" version or whatever it's called, I said no, and it never bothered me again. I don't know what licence Postman uses. A quick search on GitHub didn't turn up the source of the app on the Postman Labs page. Insomnia is MIT [0], so it could still be forked if Kong got decided to stop supporting the free version. [0] https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/LICENSE https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/LICENSE

chrisweekly 5y ago
I still like Insomnia too.
meibo 5y ago
I actually wasn't aware of it being open source at all, thanks. It's not mentioned anywhere on their page, gives me a bit more confidence :)

pull_my_finger 5y ago

Why would you think Kong would spoil it? Their main product is an API gateway, it makes sense to have a nice HTTP client under their umbrella. Kong is also open source and almost all of their plugins are freely available. I actually tried (and still use) Insomnia _because_ it was affiliated with Kong. YMMV but I've had no complaints about Insomnia at all.

udfalkso 5y ago

Insomnia is great, I use it daily. Highly reccommend.

squeaky-clean 5y ago

Am I having a Mandela Effect moment or did Insomnia used to be Mac only? I remember seeing it a long time ago and being disappointed I couldn't use it. Now I'm doubting my memory, lol. Either way thanks for the recommendation/reminder for Insomnia, it looks so much better than the current version of postman.

easton 5y ago
You aren’t thinking of Paw, are you? https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/
phunehehe0 5y ago
You are not alone! I just checked the Git history and it seems we were indeed mistaken, at least since 2017. It might have been just hard to see from the website. "Insomnia is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and can be downloaded from http://insomnia.rest/download/ http://insomnia.rest/download/" https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de23f0964f34258385afe76 https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de2...