What does HackerNews think of Restfox?

Offline-first web HTTP client

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Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client | Sep 2023

Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork?

Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing

Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

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

ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy

Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci

Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

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Insomnia REST client now requires an account | Sep 2023

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https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh work

Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces account creation w/o warning | Sep 2023

Restfox [1] has a similar UI to insomnia and works well. Not affiliated with Restfox

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Airtable lays off over 250 | Dec 2022

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Well more than anything, 90% of the use cases are people using it as essentially a GUI CURL. There's countless open source alternatives [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

Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Postman and Insomnia | Dec 2022

You can try https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox. It's a web based HTTP client based on Postman and Insomnia.

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer for it.