Running a business is perfectly acceptable. Paid tools, likewise, as perfectly acceptable. Granted, most of software is built directly or indirectly on free work either of the intellectuals that discovered the foundational knowledge required to build it or of the engineers that built the tools.

What’s not acceptable is the rug-pull of presenting something as free and trying to claw back money from the endeavor after you’ve got users locked in. If you need money, don’t offer a free product. If you offer a free product, make sure you can afford it.

No one is going to judge you for charging the worth of your offering. However, you’re also not going to get free goodwill and advertising for no reason.

Spend your time and energy wisely, that is your personal responsibility.

You can't continue to make a product worse over time without expecting to lose some customers. When someone tells you why they stopped using your product, don't brush off the feedback as whiny entitled complaints.

No, Bruno offers paid but with Postman it burns: they removed your personal data after upgrade and you can't store your own data locally.

I will likely buy Bruno because it is a one time fee and I control my data. It should work forever after that.

Baloney. As other's have mentioned, Bruno also has a paid option.

Postman's problem is they took hundreds of millions of funding that somehow thinks an API request tool is worth $5.6 billion (though I'm sure that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down from the 2021 ZIRP frenzy). So now Postman has long since gone down the full enshittification path with a totally unnecessarily complicated UI and authentication and cloud features that hardly anybody really wants.

I like Bruno simply because I believe their approach is much better: simpler UI and, importantly, as their demo video points out, collections of API requests can be saved in an easy-to-understand format in git. Much better than some proprietary cloud storage.

>How dare they try and run a business and get paid for their work

They can run whatever they want. I, and the parent, wont be using it.

Bruno has a paid option too, btw, and I'm fine with that. I'd be fine even if it was the only option. Login and extra BS features to tie me in? No, thanks.