Reminds me of Dark - "The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end." – Adam

Hope Bruno will deliver us from this never-ending cycle.

Is there a duopoly play happening here?

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

- Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs

- It is lightweight with MIT license

- Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem

- Use git for collaboration

- No cloud sync. Fully offline.

PS: I am the creator of this project

It's like the Netflix series Dark. It's a cycle.

Start API Client

Traction

VC Funding

Bloatware

Deprecate Scratchpad

Delete Scratchpad

Bruno will put an end to this. Honestly, I don't care if I end up making little money from Bruno. This shit has to stop. An API Client need not be VC funded.

It's been a decade now. 10yrs.

Fully offline is a lie. There is telemetry with no opt out.[1] And you should say lightweight compared to other Electron apps if you mean lightweight compared to other Electron apps.[2]

[1] https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/337

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37697206

We will soon add support for disabling telemetry (visit count)

By Fully Offline, I meant to emphasize that we don't plan to plan to support online syncing of api collections to cloud.

lightweight is not just about electron, it's also about being mimimal without all the feature bloat that most people don't need.

Honestly I don't get the hate for electron.. Bruno got almost 50 PRs in the last week by community. We shipped a release every single day to all macOS, win, Linux.

New contributors are able to get the code up and running and contribute code within a day.

This is made possible by electron.

Fully offline means fully offline. It could have been an honest mistake the 1st time. Not after it was brought to your attention.

You said you would support disabling telemetry in the upcoming release several releases ago. And you could have disabled it temporarily or added a warning in less time than you spent trying to justify and deflect.

A fork bomb has minimal features. Is it lightweight?

Your reasons for using Electron are not reasons to make false claims.

People who know the stack can contribute code within a day. It is true for any stack.

Is there a way to use an interceptor on this?

With postman when I could use their interceptor extension on the browser, that would transfer cookies (from when I was logged into an app that was running locally) onto any of postman's requests. That was very convenient.

That's a great feature which we currently don't have.

If you don't mind, it'd be great if you could outline your usecase on our GitHub issue tracker.

On cookies, we are building UI support, meanwhile you can use scripting workaround described here https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/385#discussion...

Thank you. I will try to create one.

Great effort btw. Awesome to see more open source projects from India.

We need to align incentives better. It's really hard to do this in opensource.

I hope Bruno can do that. I penned some thoughts here: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

Glad that you like, Bruno! Yes, there has been a huge uptick in interest in Bruno. It was very hard to get visibility in a saturated market, but now since we have some, people are seeing the benefits of a local only architecture that Bruno provides.

It's not just the uptick in interest, we received a whopping 25 PRs to improve Bruno is the last 5 days alone, and I have merged 21 already and released them. Really grateful to the community.

Happy to see Bruno trending on HN.

I had recently penned some thoughts on opensource sustainability, the early days and the future plans of Bruno in this discussion thread: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

Yes, the demo needs to be redone. Glad that you like Bruno.

I understand the concern. We will support disabling the visit count telemetry in the upcoming release.

You did not.

Thanks. Fixed!

This was my first article that got to front page on HN! Thank you @ushakov for posting this.

Hey, if you don't mind some unpredictable donation/sponsoring, you could put up a bitcoin address (and optionally XMR and/or ETH, though those latter two may be a bit more friction for you if you're not already familiar).

Why did you choose the MIT license?