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points by ayush--s 4 days ago | 0 comments

I logged in to postman today after 3 years to use some public API, and god, it was so damn unusable. It took me navigating through "workspace", "environments", etc etc before I could hit the simplest of http endpoints.

[–] tisdadd 4 days ago

I switched to Bruno when payment started requiring login, love having the ability to just check it into git.

[–] 01CPMD3174 4 days ago

Ah thanks for name dropping Bruno. I actually never found the Postman alternative I was looking for. Using wget is fine. It would be nice to have an interface with collections again. Will check out Bruno this weekend…

[–] ehnto 4 days ago

I also use Bruno and it's great. One amazing benefit it saves in human readable formats.

You can give an AI agent a documentation page and it will create the collection of routes pretty quickly in files you can commit to git.

[–] martin_a 4 days ago

For me this is one of the biggest features/nice-to-haves! Just a folder with text files to define your environment that you can easily sync to other devices, backup, move to the next client...

[–] aembleton 4 days ago

Worth checking out Yaak too: https://yaak.app/

I can't remember why I settled on this over Bruno, but its much better than dealing with Postman.

[–] boobsbr 2 days ago

You chose Yaak because it's from the original author of Insomnia, and Bruno is going the same paid route as Postman.

[–] nkjoep 4 days ago

I had switched to Bruno as well. Unfortunately enshittyfication caught up also there.

[–] 01CPMD3174 4 days ago

Exactly. Back in 2015 when I was still coding professionally Postman was our go-to tool for API testing.

Earlier this year I reached for Postman when kicking off a side project. I was appalled by how convoluted it has become. It really is a Frankenstein product. And they can’t seem to figure out what their offer really is.

No thanks. RIP to the OG Postman. The new Postman is dead to me.