Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman

Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by urig on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:20AM (#50363523)

For a Postman-like experience, I prefer Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno (not affiliated)

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by CatMustard on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:24AM (#50363563)

Never used milkman so can't say if it's better, but +1 for Bruno.

Very similar UX to postman (just minus the bullshit), so a very easy transition. Plus, even more importantly, a cute dog logo.

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by Kinrany on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:31AM (#50363621)

The Hurl file format seems good, any new FOSS replacements should probably build on top

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by satvikpendem on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:30AM (#50364679)

Bruno is VC funded.

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by threatofrain on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:37AM (#50368094)

It's bizarre how this specific area of seemingly simple tooling gets churn and VC money.

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by sureglymop on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:20PM (#50371713)

Maybe I'm out of touch but I still don't know what any of these tools do that you can't do better and more easily with curl.

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by pchangr on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:03PM (#50372675)

You can have “collections” of endpoints and their corresponding request schemas organized. So if you’re working with say.. 15 different APIs from different providers all with their own idiosincracies, you get a centralized place to experiment with them

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by uncletoxa on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:27AM (#50364652)

Also yaak https://yaak.app/

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by satvikpendem on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:29AM (#50364670)

Bruno is also VC funded so it'll go the same way.

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Re:Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman by thesuavefactor on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:54PM (#50371373)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5xryHhln5Sc

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