Although sometimes too much, I think the way fly.io starts their blog posts with a description of what they do is brilliant. I have no idea what Hoppscotch is and reading the first paragraphs I still don’t.
I switched to Paw a few years back (now RapidAPI and now free), and haven’t looked back. The bloat/performance issues with Postman were too much, and I’ve really enjoyed the native experience with Paw.<p>Still always happy to see competition in this space because the existing tools are useful, but can still get better.<p>Although I have a feeling that it won’t be too many years before we forget why we ever needed these API testing tools while some API consuming LLM takes over the space.<p>- <a href="https://paw.cloud" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://paw.cloud</a>
I like that they are an open-source Postman, but I also dislike that they are just a copy-and-paste of Postman.<p>Did Hoppscotch try to be innovative in any of its features?
After determining what they do by going to the home page (postman/insomnia/bruno replacement), I saw the Google logo. Does Google seriously use such a product? These logo bars are really interesting, as everyone seems to have a different idea as to what they imply.
Nice. Downloaded and installed.<p>Clean UI (almost bordering on a rip-off of Postman.. but I guess familiarity helps users get going faster).<p>Lovely to see that things aren't held behind a Login button, ala Postman and Insomnia (Kong really misread the room on their latest update).<p>Login and accounts seem like they're there, but very clearly optional.<p>Nicely done, Hoppscotch team!
First either add "Show HN" or "AD".<p>Second I use bruno <a href="https://www.usebruno.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.usebruno.com/</a>.
If you're just looking to store API collections locally, an alternative I use is a VS Code plugin called ThunderClient [1].<p>imho, dev centric tools that care about system resource usage should just integrate with the IDE when possible. It's already running!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.thunderclient.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thunderclient.com</a>
I love hoppscotch and I'm a happy user or their PWA- not sure I understand the benefit that a framework like Tauri provides in addition? (They mention filesystem based workflows, but my understanding was that was also possible within PWA?)
Let me guess:<p>- Electron<p>- Postman was OK until it was enshitified, so along came Insomnia which was never quite as good as original Postman and then itself became enshitifed<p>- This too will suffer the same fate as the previous two and will gradually also adopt a busy, unworkable, confusing UI<p>This is why I’ve started using Hurl because that doesn’t even have a UI. Bonus: can be kept in source control and run as part of CI/CD.<p><a href="https://www.communication-generation.com/enshitification/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.communication-generation.com/enshitification/</a><p><a href="https://hurl.dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hurl.dev/</a>
Nothing beats the Jetbrains IDEs’ HTTP client for this. They should release it as a standalone product.<p>It’s all text based so fits nicely into your repo in the native format, no exporting etc.
I just tried it. It feels like postman, very slow when typing json body. But it's small, and startup time is instant. I prefer bruno, but we do not talk about bruno.
It has a clean UI and can be self-hosted.<p>The downside is that
- Only one workspace is available when offline.<p>- You can't point your Workspace data to a specific directory like bruno does, and manage the data like git or other clouds.<p>- Self-hosting login is not possible in the desktop app.<p>- Cannot save specific responses like postman.<p>- Can't create documentation for a folder/request.<p>Now that we've just launched, I think we have a lot to look forward to.
I hope it evolves to not force cloud synchronization like postman and insomnia, and to be free to use offline.