4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Insomnia first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“ever since they started pushing accounts so aggressively, I've switched to Yaak”
mixed · personal · 6 yr · amflare · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then, Insomnia became enshittified, so we switched to Bruno.”
regret · production · stavros · 2025-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Insomnia for a few months now, some things I really like”
endorse · personal · mmanfrin · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using insomnia daily for something like a year now, it's excellent. I would ask the developer to stop putting pop-up messages in it though.”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · Sir_Substance · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?