TL;DR: Insomnia Designer a new open-source desktop application that provides a modern workflow for teams to design and collaborate on APIs. If you're a software developer, there's a good chance you interact with APIs almost every day…
TL;DR – Check out the new Insomnia Plugin Hub! 🔥 Insomnia is a great tool for interacting with GraphQL and REST APIs. But, did you know that it can be extended even further with plugins? The community has made some amazing plugins since…
Kong and Insomnia Four years ago, I was hunched over my desk, searching for a cURL command that I'd painstakingly put together the week before. I was on a call with a customer and knew I had the exact snippet to solve their problem, but…
Starting in version 6.6.2, it is now possible to browse documentation for GraphQL APIs without leaving Insomnia! 🤗🔥 GraphQL explorer demo using GatsbyJS API Since adding GraphQL support two years ago, Insomnia has become one of the go…
All colorschemes are now free as of Insomnia 6.0 👏 It's now been over two years since I left my real job to work on Insomnia full-time 🙌. Today, Insomnia remains a single-person company – just as it began – but app development is now…
Welcome to the last metrics recap of 2017! The beginning of December was very busy, as Insomnia reached the top of both Reddit (/r/programming) and Hacker News. Reddit – 4000 visits ⇒ 600 downloads Hacker News – 9000 visits ⇒ 1000 downloads…
November marked the one-year anniversary of the Insomnia Plus plan. I can't even believe it's only taken a year for Insomnia to grow from a side project into a healthy business. Every day still feels like a dream. If you like this post, be…
Starting with version 5.12.3, Insomnia can now be installed through an official PPA on Ubuntu-based operating systems. Follow these simple instructions to add the repository and install the app.
I'm happy to announce that there is a brand new Documentation Website for Insomnia! The new site is built using HelpScout Knowledge Base, which was chosen for two reasons. (1) Insomnia was already using HelpScout to manage support email…
Starting with v5.11.0, Insomnia users can now authenticate using the OAuth 1.0 authentication framework! Twitter OAuth 1.0 OAuth 1.0 support was an extremely popular request so I'm proud to finally announce that it's finished. In fact, it…
October saw a large increase of traffic due to a very positive Hacker News comment that got a lot af attention. This also produced a large ripple effect of sharing on other social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This influx of users was…
Here is a short and sweet recap of September's metrics for Insomnia. If you like this post, be sure to check out the other recaps. There's one every month! Metrics Overview Revenue growth is still looking healthy. There have been a lot…
I spent most of August getting ready to go on a long-term travel trip, meaning not much got done in August. As a result, this recap will be quite short. If you like this post, be sure to check out the other recaps. There's one every month…
Starting in version 5.7.0, you can now interact with a GraphQL server just the same as any other HTTP request inside Insomnia 🤗! GraphQL Screenshot Along with defining and sending queries, the GraphQL integration also provides the…
Well, another month has passed and Insomnia continues to grow 📈. Unfortunately, number of active users didn't budge, but MRR increased by a whopping 45% 🤑! That's is the largest increase Insomnia has seen in a long time, and I attribute…
If you were to ask me which month has felt the most like a roller coaster, it would have been June. Major community-developed features were released 🦄, a blog post hit front page 😄 of Hacker News, Smashing Magazine tweeted about…
Insomnia tries to display HTTP responses in the most friendly way possible. For example, HTML files are rendered as web pages, images and SVGs are displayed as bitmaps, and JSON and XML responses are syntax highlighted and interactive. Now…
OAuth 2.0 has been a supported authentication scheme in Insomnia for some time now but – if you are new to OAuth – can still be quite complicated. This post walks through an example using OAuth 2.0 to authenticate and create a repository…
One of the headlining features of Insomnia 5.4.0 is support for UNIX Domain Sockets – a mechanism typically used for communication between processes running on the same host operating system. This post gives a brief introduction on…
On May 10th, I Announced that the Insomnia desktop app is now open source under the GNU AGPLv3 license. If you like this post, be sure to check out the other recaps. There's one every month! May Metrics Overview Because the open source…
Since the Open Source Announcement yesterday, many people have submitted bugs, asked questions, and proposed features via GitHub issues. However, this is not always the most suitable medium for discussion. Now, Thanks to a suggestion by…
Today, I'm happy to announce that the Insomnia desktop app is now open source software under the MIT license! The source code is hosted on GitHub for your viewing pleasure. Journey to Open Source I launched Insomnia more than two years…
April was the most difficult month yet. I Launched Version 5.0 with some large new features, and the release went fairly smoothly. However, 5.0 introduced a major compatibility problem for subset of Linux and OSX versions. This unexpected…
TL;DR – This update brings contextual autocomplete, more authentication types, and better debugging! 👏 It's been over a month since the last release but version 5.0 is finally here! So, find a chair, take a seat, and brace yourself for…
As Insomnia slowly grows into a sustainable business it becomes more and more difficult to find things to put in these updates. I'm currently heads-down putting the finishing touches on a very major release so, instead of spending a day or…
February was an exciting month for Insomnia with monthly recurring revenue growing 192% and monthly active users growing 14%. Considering how little time (none) was put into marketing and promotion, that's really exciting. Since most of…
Last Month's Recap was fairly uneventful due to extremely low app usage during the holiday season. Thankfully, usage is back up this month and things are looking great! Insomnia crossed last month's failed goal of $100 MRR and also…
Superb design has always been treated as a core feature of Insomnia. However, I recently noticed that no design-related work had been done on Insomnia in months. Because of this, I decided to spend a few days and implement a new design…
December is a notoriously slow month because of the holidays. I also decided to take some time off to reflect on things and spend time with family, so this recap will be relatively short. (Still interesting, I promise!) Daily Active Users…
Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop apps in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. The folks at GitHub somehow managed to cram the Node.js runtime into the Chromium web browser, letting developers combine the flexibility of…
Welcome to the recap of my fifth month working on Insomnia full time. In this blog series, I analyse interesting growth metrics and reflect on valuable lessons learned while trying to take Insomnia from a part-time hobby to a full-time…
Version 4 brings multipart support, response history, performance, and more! The number 3 just wasn't big enough to contain all the awesome stuff in this release, so it's been bumped to 4.0! This version fills in all of the major usability…
Insomnia's cloud sync feature makes use of the Secure Remote Passwords protocol to help protect the user's credentials during authentication. The folks at Mozilla maintain a great library called node-srp but nothing as good existed for Go…
Today, I'm proud to introduce Insomnia Plus – the first paid addition to Insomnia that syncs data seamlessly across all of your devices. Insomnia Plus also acts as a secure backup, so you can rest assured that you will never accidentally…
One major goal when transitioning to Insomnia full-time was to share as much about the process as possible. As an independent developer with little time, success heavily relies on the effective use of shared knowledge, tools, resources…
tl;dr visit the Insomnia Plus Beta Documentation Four months ago I left my previous job to work full-time on Insomnia. Since then, I've had over 300 amazing conversations with users have helped identify bugs, given feedback, and suggested…
Exactly one week ago Insomnia reached #1 on HackerNews, generating around 50,000 website visits, 10,000 new users, and 200 email conversations. I spent the week going through these conversations and implementing common complaints…
As you may know, the existing Linux version of Insomnia does not auto-update like the Windows and Mac versions. However, starting with version 3.2.2, the app will display a prompt when a new update is available. This will make keeping up…
Yesterday, Google announced that it would be discontinuing Chrome Apps in mid-2017. This means that popular Chrome-based REST clients like Insomnia (2.0), Postman, Advanced REST Client, and DHC will become unavailable. Luckily, there are…
Don't worry! The Chrome version of Insomnia will be kept available for as long as necessary, but you should upgrade to the standalone version (3.0) as soon as possible. Google announced today that they will be phasing out Chrome Apps by…
Only a week has gone by since the last update, but a lot has changed. This release introduces three brand new features – cookie management, global environment variables, and code snippet generation! Cookie Management The ability to manage…