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I am using Insomnia: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

comment by lostmsu · 2025-05-17 · in Postman is logging all your secrets and environment variables

…Insomnia introduced account shenanigans around the end of Sept 23: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590

comment by Chris2048 · 2025-02-01 · in Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

Yeah, but they went the cloud-first enshittification route like a year and a half ago. https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 I still use Insomnium, a (dead) fork of Insomnia that removed all the telemetry on a version of Insomnia…

comment by arcanemachiner · 2025-02-01 · in Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

…text-based files to version control. Insomnia is probably better but had a major fiasco last year - https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

comment by ashishb · 2024-10-13 · in The Indian startup bubble is insane

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Isomnia 9.2.0

story by heitorrdpp · 2024-05-19 · 2 comments

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Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use

story by catskull · 2023-11-20 · 10 comments

…recently - tldr, Insomnia now requires a cloud account and can’t run purely locally. See also https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6606

comment by rmccue · 2023-10-09 · in HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans

…reverted their bone head move? (I don't use it daily) EDIT: Maybe they did. See last comment here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590

comment by stronglikedan · 2023-10-06 · in Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Local-only projects are coming back in mid October (Insomnia v8.3)

story by taubek · 2023-10-04 · 1 comment

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Local-only projects are coming back in mid October (Insomnia v8.3) #6626

story by foofoo4u · 2023-10-03 · 0 comments

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Local-only projects are coming back in mid October (Insomnia v8.3)

story by l2dy · 2023-10-03 · 1 comment

…people in that thread about it. 1: https://twitter.com/GregorySchier/status/1707472402454835593 2: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5056#issuecomment-12...

comment by user6275726E · 2023-09-29 · in Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

…you can do to get Kong's attention on how horribly they have handled this situation is... unstar https://github.com/kong/insomnia ...and tell everyone you know to do the same... It's so so sad that it's come to this but if you haven't seen…

comment by user6275726E · 2023-09-29 · in Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 It was later turned into a discussion here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590 However, the discussion was closed so newer…

comment by makestuff · 2023-09-29 · in Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

insomnia was my favorite http client until it started deleting entire projects: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5167

comment by patrikcsak · 2023-09-29 · in Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

…private information not owned by me. Thankfully I was able to download an older version here https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases before the 8.x release. This is unacceptable. Enshittification indeed.

comment by foofoo4u · 2023-09-28 · in Insomnia users locked out of their projects after 8.0 update

…made 13h ago after beta versions released. There's no response yet. update : found response here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577#issuecomment-17... I understand it's intentional

comment by tomaszs · 2023-09-28 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Insomnia users locked out of their projects after 8.0 update

story by swyx · 2023-09-28 · 3 comments

…could be a bug, not intended behavior? Seems it has (accidentally) at least happen once before ( https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5559 ) so probably worth switching to a different client regardless if this time was on purpose or not.

comment by capableweb · 2023-09-28 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Insomnia wiped all user data, forcing users to use their cloud

story by delduca · 2023-09-28 · 6 comments

…some cloud login. I'll be looking for an alternative if this is the direction Insomnia is headed. https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585

comment by Mindstormy · 2023-09-28 · in Inso 8.0 – Scratch Pad, SSO, Real-time collaboration, AI testing

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Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?

story by nzach · 2023-09-28 · 3 comments

…the existing one) 3) Find comment in GitHub saying I can recover my data by downgrading to https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5.... and update Preferences not to automatically download and install updates 4) Look for…

comment by danskeren · 2023-09-28 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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All my data lost – “Failed to create remote project”

story by impish9208 · 2023-09-27 · 0 comments

…operating without the cloud will need to downgrade to 2023.5.8 to continue accessing their data: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5.... HN user ‘RamblingCTO’ (see below) is the author of the GitHub issue.

comment by altairprime · 2023-09-27 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces account creation w/o warning

story by huy-nguyen · 2023-09-27 · 1 comment

Discussion going on in https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 . Unlikely to change anything, though. Time to look at alternatives.

comment by nde · 2023-09-27 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Insomnia REST client now requires an account

story by mmillin · 2023-09-27 · 157 comments

Its autocomplete story is a mess, but https://github.com/Kong/insomnia#readme at least allows one to visualize any schema authored in the document (it generates examples as well as a schema browser). It's possible that other OpenAPI tools…

comment by mdaniel · 2023-08-21 · in JSON Schema Store

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Insomnia: An Open-Source API Client (GraphQL/REST/WebSockets/gRPC)

story by hello_computer · 2023-05-10 · 0 comments

…to see the post just from the PostHog side, which is biased by definition. VSCode and Insomnia( https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/pull/5416 ) taken as electron-based App examples are doing the same with an opt-out telemetry. As said by…

comment by andreacavagna · 2023-03-29 · in Ask HN: Should open source projects track you?

…years doing major refactors from Flow to TypeScript (the largest that's public was for Insomnia: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/3654 ).

comment by dimitropoulos · 2023-03-16 · in TypeScript 5.0

…was fully open source[1] and I couldn't find any closed source elements after looking around. 1: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

comment by pritambaral · 2023-02-21 · in Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans

…[1] [2]. They can't ever charge too much money because the space isn't exactly hard to enter. [1] https://github.com/Kong/insomnia [2] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

comment by ApolloFortyNine · 2022-12-08 · in Airtable lays off over 250

…stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Restfox (405 stars, 2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri,…

comment by culi · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

…https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... Hurl https://hurl.dev Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Kreya https://kreya.app Milkman https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman Nap https://github.com/davesheldon/nap Paw…

comment by jicea · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

What's the difference between Restfox and https://github.com/Kong/insomnia ? Seems both of them are Postman alternative.

comment by maxloh · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

I have used https://github.com/Kong/insomnia for Websocket stuff

comment by nerdbaggy · 2022-10-21 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

I got off Postman years ago and have been using Insomnia since then: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

comment by fredley · 2022-02-28 · in Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

…available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and can be downloaded from http://insomnia.rest/download/ " https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de2...

comment by phunehehe0 · 2021-12-20 · in HTTP Toolkit

…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

comment by vladvasiliu · 2021-12-20 · in HTTP Toolkit

I found the .deb file on the github releases page at https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases

comment by mikecoles · 2020-05-01 · in Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design

Insomnia is great. Support for Flatpak would be awesome ;-) https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/1812

comment by lildata · 2020-04-30 · in Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design

We're tracking that on GitHub. Feel free to follow along or submit additional details :) https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/2082

comment by gschier · 2020-04-29 · in Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design

Luckily it is open source https://github.com/Kong/insomnia so if something like that happens, a community KISS fork is possible. I'm a big Insomnia fan and always recommend it over Postman as it's simple to use. Although even it feel a bit…

comment by quickthrower2 · 2020-04-29 · in Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design

How does this compare to insomnia. https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia

comment by thrownaway954 · 2019-11-22 · in Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman

It is not nattive , very hard to find native apps https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia

comment by umen · 2019-08-28 · in Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder

…fairly popular in the GraphQL community I will likely take a look at implementing this soon :) https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia/issues/451

comment by gschier · 2018-04-18 · in Insomnia GraphQL Support

…it's OSS as well, so whiny people like me can potentially contribute features they're missing https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia

comment by smnscu · 2018-02-14 · in Introduction and Quick Guide to GraphQL for BackEnd and FrontEnd

Nice, can't wait to try it! Btw, this is the official source code: https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia But I find it a bit odd that I couldn't find a link to the source code on the website. Edit: There is one, I just wasn't looking…

comment by murftown · 2017-12-08 · in Insomnia REST Client