[jkbr]

> Why is the license for this GUI tool so different than the license for their command line tool? The source isn’t even in this repository.

The desktop app is not ready to be open-sourced yet.

> There is 0% chance that this will avoid the route that POSTman and Insomnia have paved.

HTTPie has been around for 10+ years, and the new desktop product is built around the idea that we can do much better than the incumbents (from a much simpler interface and more pleasant UX to a more aligned set of incentives supporting incognito, free, as well as paying users/companies).

> WTF is it about these tools that the creators think will make us tolerate the sudden switch from free to paid? I am dead tired of watching this play out over and over.

What Postman and Insomnia did is not cool. But that does not mean it’s unavoidable. Even though it complicates development, we’re local-first from the very start. Accounts and sync are optional layers on top of it.

[prmoustache]

>The desktop app is not ready to be open-sourced yet.

There is no such thing as code being ready or not to be open-sourced.

[jkbr]

Are you the @prmoustache on GitHub with zero public repos?

[naikrovek]

911? good, hi. I'd like to report a murder.

[prmoustache]

nope but surely a fan of the same comic.