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Insomnia has always served me much better than postman

quaffapint 3y ago
Postman was the way to go when it first came out. But then they started throwing everything into it so it became the most convoluted and horrible ux I could imagine. I also switched to Insomnia, and it's like going back in time to the cleanliness of Postman way back when.
- RussianCow 3y ago
  Give it another few years and people will be saying the exact same thing about Insomnia and some new product on the market. The company behind Insomnia is also VC-funded, so this is almost inevitable.
ehutch79 3y ago
Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh
- aniforprez 3y ago
  I don't think I've seen any real material difference to Insomnia towards the negative after they were acquired. It still works just fine. It's far FAR less bloated than Postman and easier to use than alternatives like Paw (now RapidAPI)
  - ehutch79 3y ago
    I didn't even know they got aquired. It's been a long time since i used it.
- fosk 3y ago
  What don't you like about Insomnia?
  - ehutch79 3y ago
    All the "project management" type stuff. It used to be just a request builder. Something easier to fiddle with than the command line for analysis. Now it's got a bunch of features and wants you to build projects? I stopped using it a long time ago.
- TremendousJudge 3y ago
  Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it
  - ramitsuri 3y ago
    Saw this in a comment below - https://firecamp.dev/ https://firecamp.dev/
    - shreya10 3y ago
      Hey @ramitsuri, thank you for the mention on behalf of Firecamp team.
  - kermire 3y ago
    There's https://restfox.dev https://restfox.dev which I built. To stay unbiased, here's a list of other web based postman alternatives: - https://hoppscotch.io https://hoppscotch.io (this is the most popular one) - https://httpie.io/app https://httpie.io/app
jacobsenscott 3y ago
I tried insomnia for the first time the other day. The big missing bit is that you can't inherit authentication from the collection container, so all you're requests use the same oauth2 method or whatever. You need to set it up for each request in the collection.
- fosk 3y ago
  We are fixing this! We are introducing "Global Authentication" files that can be defined once and used in as many collections as you want. In the next 1-2 months you will see the biggest amount of improvements the Insomnia application has ever seen, since here at Kong we are pouring tons of resources into it.

Postman was the way to go when it first came out. But then they started throwing everything into it so it became the most convoluted and horrible ux I could imagine. I also switched to Insomnia, and it's like going back in time to the cleanliness of Postman way back when.

RussianCow 3y ago
Give it another few years and people will be saying the exact same thing about Insomnia and some new product on the market. The company behind Insomnia is also VC-funded, so this is almost inevitable.

ehutch79 3y ago

Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh

aniforprez 3y ago
I don't think I've seen any real material difference to Insomnia towards the negative after they were acquired. It still works just fine. It's far FAR less bloated than Postman and easier to use than alternatives like Paw (now RapidAPI)
- ehutch79 3y ago
  I didn't even know they got aquired. It's been a long time since i used it.
fosk 3y ago
What don't you like about Insomnia?
- ehutch79 3y ago
  All the "project management" type stuff. It used to be just a request builder. Something easier to fiddle with than the command line for analysis. Now it's got a bunch of features and wants you to build projects? I stopped using it a long time ago.
TremendousJudge 3y ago
Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it
- ramitsuri 3y ago
  Saw this in a comment below - https://firecamp.dev/ https://firecamp.dev/
  - shreya10 3y ago
    Hey @ramitsuri, thank you for the mention on behalf of Firecamp team.
- kermire 3y ago
  There's https://restfox.dev https://restfox.dev which I built. To stay unbiased, here's a list of other web based postman alternatives: - https://hoppscotch.io https://hoppscotch.io (this is the most popular one) - https://httpie.io/app https://httpie.io/app

jacobsenscott 3y ago

I tried insomnia for the first time the other day. The big missing bit is that you can't inherit authentication from the collection container, so all you're requests use the same oauth2 method or whatever. You need to set it up for each request in the collection.

fosk 3y ago
We are fixing this! We are introducing "Global Authentication" files that can be defined once and used in as many collections as you want. In the next 1-2 months you will see the biggest amount of improvements the Insomnia application has ever seen, since here at Kong we are pouring tons of resources into it.