Hey everyone, this is Anoop - creator of Bruno.
Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN!
I will try to address some common questions in this comment.
> Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in.
Especially once a VC gets into the fold.
We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them. We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
> I didn't stick with Bruno. I think it was due to not having an equivalent to Postman's pre-request scripts.
Bruno has come a long way, we support pre-request scripts and a lot more
> But can it handle oauth2? I had to write a httpie script recently just to test an oauth2 api.
We have released oauth2 support, some rough edges are being polished
> Good thing it's open source. Money being involved, I don't have long term hopes for it's openness.
I understand this is a hard problem. We are fully bootstrapped and independent. We earn money via selling the Golden Edition. We will build more developer products in the long term, and the goal is to make even the golden edition features also open source in the future. I am committed to this cause.
> History goes in circles. New API client appears, adds features, userbase grows. Forced login is added, users are angry and look for alternative. New API client appears.
I have felt this pain. That's one of the reasons why I denied VC funding and chose to remain independent. Having seen 10 years of this cycle, its enough. We don't want to repeat the same saga.
Some good links where I have discussed about opensource, freedom and monetization
Thank you for the information and the commitment to open source. I know the Gold edition isn't open source under an OSI license, but is it source available for people who purchase it?
I'm strongly considering buying it because it's not a subscription, and is open source. As a general rule, I don't buy proprietary software anymore after having been burned in the past. I have no issues with open source software that has proprietary features as a way to make the project sustainable, if they are source available for paying customers, and personal modifications are allowed. Obviously redistributing any of that code, even my own modifications, would not be acceptable and would violate the license.
You mentioned that the goal is to make the Gold edition features open source eventually, so would you consider going source available?
I will try to address some common questions in this comment.
> Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in. Especially once a VC gets into the fold.
We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them. We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
> I didn't stick with Bruno. I think it was due to not having an equivalent to Postman's pre-request scripts.
Bruno has come a long way, we support pre-request scripts and a lot more
> But can it handle oauth2? I had to write a httpie script recently just to test an oauth2 api.
We have released oauth2 support, some rough edges are being polished
> Good thing it's open source. Money being involved, I don't have long term hopes for it's openness.
I understand this is a hard problem. We are fully bootstrapped and independent. We earn money via selling the Golden Edition. We will build more developer products in the long term, and the goal is to make even the golden edition features also open source in the future. I am committed to this cause.
> History goes in circles. New API client appears, adds features, userbase grows. Forced login is added, users are angry and look for alternative. New API client appears.
I have felt this pain. That's one of the reasons why I denied VC funding and chose to remain independent. Having seen 10 years of this cycle, its enough. We don't want to repeat the same saga.
Some good links where I have discussed about opensource, freedom and monetization
- https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
- https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSMFpbcPiY
We are also working on standardizing and improving the Bru Lang to bring more features in Bruno. See: https://www.brulang.org/
If you'd like to pre-order the golden edition: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing
Thank you for all the love and kind words, HN!