Insomnia locks you behind accounts. Postman the same plus now charges for extra teammates. Surprise: devs hate friction. First version = easy. Running a reliable tool for years = complicated and expensive. Monetization always wins. Devs vote with their feet. Local tools and git collab &gt; cloud chains.
Developers will eventually abandon tools that trap them in the cloud. what do you think?

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A short hot take arguing that developer tools like Insomnia and Postman have degraded their user experience by forcing account sign-ups and charging for team features. The post contends that monetization pressures inevitably introduce friction, and that developers will migrate to local-first, git-friendly alternatives rather than accept cloud lock-in.

Developer Friction as a Service (DFaaS). Better acronyms?

I think you’re right. I stopped using Postman a while back because they kept messing with the UI. I have IntelliJ Ultimate, so I have an easy way to write and store HTTP requests, thus Postman is superfluous. When I logged in recently to see these new account changes, I made it official and deleted my account.

I never looked back once I switched to <a href="https://www.usebruno.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Bruno</a>