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New comment by Letmetest in "Postman Removes Free Plan?"

Letmetest — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:24:20 +0000

Got the email from Postman saying free plan is ending March 1. We're moving to Bruno for the time being.

I don't know if we need another API client, but what the hell is Postman doing? They seem to be intentionally destroying what once was a great product / loyal users.

Postman Removes Free Plan?

Letmetest — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:24:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usebruno.com/migrate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144163

Points: 3

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New comment by Letmetest in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

Letmetest — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:52:28 +0000

The features you pay for are just GUI features. All of the things are still accessible in the terminal or IDE.

New comment by Letmetest in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

Letmetest — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:50:56 +0000

I'm not sure how adding a subscription is 'the same thing'. Postman forced all of your data to be stored in their cloud, and held it hostage for $1,000/user/year.

Bruno seems to charge somewhere between 70-130 dollars user/year for unlocking GUI features. The same features are all accessible via the terminal or IDE.

Postman is largest public source of leaked secrets?

Letmetest — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/postman-carries-lots-of-secrets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42401595

Points: 22

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New comment by Letmetest in "Why replacing Postman for Bruno saved my company millions (really)"

Letmetest — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:34:46 +0000

So basically you're just using the free version at the end of the day?

Why replacing Postman for Bruno saved my company millions (really)

Letmetest — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:34:31 +0000

A bit of a rant... I used Postman for nearly a decade. I also had my company (at the time) first purchase it about 6 years ago.

Over those 6 years I watched it: 1. Go from $72 per year to $1,188 a year 2. Become a bloated mess that won't stop trying to be this first class citizen it will never become 3. Continue to expose more and more security risk (making us login, store things in the cloud, etc) 4. Finally try to strong arm everyone at a legitimate company into paying by basically creating a loophole that any of your data can be pushed public or is saved under your personal account unless you buy their Enterprise bs account for $1,188 per year.

My company was trying to work with them but it was legitimately going to be millions of dollars a year.

Ultimately, their own sales team put the final nail in the coffin. As part of one of their presentations, they were sharing a TON of data about us, how we use the product, the type of collections, etc. One of our security folks basically tricked them into exposing that EVERYONE at Postman has access to our collection-level data (tokens, keys, etc) through their Looker instance. With that level of risk that apparently is unsolvable, enough was enough.

A bunch of people were already using Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) so we just moved to that. It does everything we need and basically solves one of engineering's biggest requests which was to version our collections in GitHub. Now we don't need to maintain all of these workspaces and collections separately.

End of rant but this is how we not only avoided a $1M+ bill since Bruno is 1/12 the cost, but also probably saved who knows how much by not having a crazy security breach.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418562

Points: 10

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