Restfox
Dev tools
api client
SHOW HN2022
758points
182comments
#17of 2,570 in 2022
Top 1%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
8 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 7 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 2 for, 6 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open source alternative to Postman is valuable
From 1 comment
Cool project! A true, open source alternative to Postman will be valuable. It seems like you’ve got the major elements in place. Unsolicited UX notes… I read Hacker News on…
mch82 on HN
Offline operation is critical
From 1 comment
The offline part is critical for me. The only other thing I would prefer is an application that doesn't use Electron.
Zamicol on HN
Auto-saving is a big improvement over Postman
From 1 comment
Wha's always boggled me about Postman is that it doesn't have autosave. It's 2022, what doesn't have autosaving? So thank you for adding auto-saving, huge improvement on Postman!
ndimares on HN
Objections
Fails on many requests with errors (e.g. Google, news.ycombinator.com)
From 2 comments
Tried to just GET www.google.com; says error and suggests bypassing with some plugins. Don't think I want to continue further.
npalli on HNEntering "news.ycombinator.com" and pressing send gives me an error.
jdthedisciple on HN
Not usable on mobile
From 2 comments
it is completly garbage on mobile
Avlin67 on HNCool project! A true, open source alternative to Postman will be valuable. It seems like you’ve got the major elements in place. Unsolicited UX notes… I read Hacker News on…
mch82 on HN
Right-click-only actions are hard to discover
From 1 comment
I like it but please dont make me right click to do something! please add a little plus or something like it. Otherwise great work! needs a little disclaimer though that you will…
jhoelzel on HN
Cannot paste into URL bar; page not working in Firefox
From 2 comments
Noticed a small bug, I can't paste into the URL bar.
snehesht on HNPage is not working for me. I'm in Firefox
Snacklive on HN
Electron-free requirement not met
From 1 comment
The offline part is critical for me. The only other thing I would prefer is an application that doesn't use Electron.
Zamicol on HN
Requests
WebSocket support
From 1 comment
Any chance of the ability to do web sockets? Postman has started supporting this recently (in beta) but I really don't want to use Postman. Any other suggestions for web socket…
sphars on HN
Import and export of curl commands
From 1 comment
A nice feature would be import and export from/to Curl commands. When collaborating with clients or even colleagues it's easier to send curl commands.
gquiniou on HN
Team sync and shared workspace access
From 1 comment
I think the whole point of people still use postman today is a easy way the sync between users or manage user that have access to the workspace. There are a lot of alternatives…
mmis1000 on HN
Client certificate support
From 1 comment
This certainly looks promising, though the only thing I can see its missing that Postman does is allowing the use of domain specific certificate authentication and the use of a…
compuguy on HN
Responsive mobile layout
From 1 comment
Cool project! A true, open source alternative to Postman will be valuable. It seems like you’ve got the major elements in place. Unsolicited UX notes… I read Hacker News on…
mch82 on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Hoppscotch or Insomnia?
From 2 comments
Why should I use this over https://hoppscotch.io ?
NayamAmarshe on HNWhat's the difference between Restfox and https://github.com/Kong/insomnia ? Seems both of them are Postman alternative.
maxloh on HN
Can it ignore the cache?
From 1 comment
Is there a way to get it to ignore the cache?
jcuenod on HN
Alternatives named
Insomnia
From 2 comments
I 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)…
philliphaydon on HNWhat's the difference between Restfox and https://github.com/Kong/insomnia ? Seems both of them are Postman alternative.
maxloh on HN
Hoppscotch
From 2 comments
Hoppscotch [1][2] (previously Postwoman) is also a very nice free and open-source Postman alternative. [1]: https://hoppscotch.io/ [2]: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
simjnd on HNNice, I wonder how it compares to hoppscotch.io
mrcaramelpants on HN
VS Code REST Client
From 2 comments
I switched to "vscode-restclient" about a year ago and never looked back. It has variables, everything is saved as text, and I can commit my request suite to source control for…
si1entstill on HNIf you are a minimalist, and are using VS Code, try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client which is a pure text syntax to describe API requests,…
jetter on HN
Bruno
From 1 comment
Nice to the tools come out to save us from postman bloat I have been recently trying out bruno - https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno It allows me to save my collection on my…
markcollin on HN
Paw
From 1 comment
Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier (https://paw.cloud)
HatchedLake721 on HN