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Insomnia
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Insomnia is the company blog at insomnia.rest, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 72 different Hacker News readers have linked it 115 times, most often “Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Insomnia is an open-source API client (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) that commenters use as a Postman alternative. The linked comments praise the tool itself, not any writing on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets
Most-linked posts?
- Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client41 people · 43 mentions · first linked 2016-09-05
- /10 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2016-12-30
- Show HN: Insomnia REST API Client3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-12-16
- Insomnia REST API Client3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-11
- /products/insomnia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-06
- Introducing GraphQL Support for Insomnia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-10
- Insomnia is now part of Kong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-03
- Insomnia App April Report – Burnout and Declining Growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-08
- Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-29
- Insomnia Progress Report 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-31
What Hacker News says?
Aside from the initial load that all Electron apps suffer from, Insomnia feels pretty snappy to me. Granted, I only have a few dozens of API that load 20KB of JSON max. https://insomnia.rest/
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on “Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust”Submitted Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client as a story · 523 points
HN discussionFor anyone looking for an aesthetic Postman alternative, I can't recommend https://insomnia.rest/ enough
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on “Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman”Submitted Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design as a story · 317 points
HN discussionI switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.
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on “Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman”Submitted Insomnia REST Client as a story · 256 points
HN discussionhttps://insomnia.rest/ Guy quit his job a year or two ago to develop this full-time and seems to be doing pretty well for himself. I use the client all the time as a developer.
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on “Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?”Submitted Show HN: Insomnia REST Client now open-source as a story · 218 points
HN discussionI've been using https://insomnia.rest/ and I am a massive fan. From the ability to make dependent API calls to say log in with one API call, and inject login tokens into the other from the first's response is amazing! Overall this tool has been my go-to for 3 years now.
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on “Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman”Submitted Introducing GraphQL Support for Insomnia as a story · 84 points
HN discussionOr Insomnia https://insomnia.rest/
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on “Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors”Submitted Insomnia GraphQL Support as a story · 79 points
HN discussionAs someone with many failed side projects, I can tell you that having a goal of making money is usually a bad thing. Like many other people have said, you can learn the skills. The hardest part of building a side project is finding the time and staying motivated for more than a few months. So, pick something _you_ will use and, if you enjoy building/using it, so will others. Obviously think about ways to monetize it…
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on “Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?”Submitted GitHub API Authentication using OAuth 2.0 as a story · 66 points
HN discussionYou 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/ " https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de2...
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on “HTTP Toolkit”Submitted Insomnia is now part of Kong as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI used to recommend 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.
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on “HTTP Toolkit”Submitted Insomnia Progress Report 1 as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI ditched Postman for Insomnia (Open source) after Postman refused to adhere to customers to disable auto-updates for 6 years+. I checked on their GitHub issue tracker and it turns out, the solution was to upgrade to their "Enterprise plan". https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/69... So, I said fuck it and switched to a real, open source alternative, Insomnia, instead: https://insomnia.rest
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on “Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down”Submitted Insomnia 5.0 – Autocomplete, OAuth 2.0, and Better Debugging as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> Insomnia's website does not make any claims towards being native. From https://insomnia.rest/pricing/ "Native app for Mac, Windows, Linux"
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on “Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client”Submitted Insomnia Designer as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPostman has a tonne of features, but this also makes the UI more difficult to learn an use. This is one of the reasons I created Insomnia. P.S. Insomnia also has code generation https://insomnia.rest/documentation/code-snippets/
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on “Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client”Submitted Insomnia Month 5 Recap – First Revenue as a story · 6 points
HN discussionInsomnia | Sr. Full-stack Engineer | Remote | Full Time | http://insomnia.rest Insomnia is building API tools to help organizations and developers build better APIs. Our tools are used by companies around the world, to deliver quality experiences to their customer base and partners on a daily basis. Come join us in helping others deliver quality API experiences. You'll get to work directly on our flagship products,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted The Collaborative API Development Platform – Insomnia as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere's also insomnia: http://insomnia.rest/ Which is an open source, cross platform alternative to postman.
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on “Postman Now Supports gRPC”Submitted Insomnia REST Client v4.2.0 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you would like an alternative that is still GUI, I personally switched from Postman to Insomnia ( https://insomnia.rest/ ) in the last year and haven't looked back. It has been acquired recently, but it's still open source and very lean. Definitely recommend, you can even directly import your Postman collections if you used them.
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on “Postman Now Supports gRPC”Submitted Show HN: Insomnia REST API Client as a story · 4 points
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