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points by georgel 5 days ago | 0 comments

Just installed it, it's funny their landing page is littered with every AI buzzword too. But I am going to give Insomnia a try, I've heard people talk about it and a few others on HN over the years. I just need a glorified cURL GUI at the end of the day.

[–] debo_ 5 days ago

I use Bruno. I forget what Insomnia did that irritated me, but Bruno is the closest I've found to a dumb client that doesn't pester me for an account.

[–] reddalo 4 days ago

> I forget what Insomnia did

I remember, because I'm still irritated about that. They hid your collections and forced you to create a cloud account to keep using the app.

See here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

[–] silverjaw 4 days ago

Give Sannr a try. It's an open source API client built for coding agents.

It's built by a former Postmanaut, me!

[–] jmuguy 5 days ago

Yeah it got bought by Kong a while back, and they're definitely not a great company, but the application itself still seems pretty OK.

I really like that you can paste a curl in to setup a new request.

This is definitely the type of app that some AI agent could cobble together pretty quickly, so I don't know why Postman etc thinks they have enough of a moat to keep enshittifying their product.