Insomnia

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Insomnia, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

Interface has become bloated and cluttered over time2025-02-27
Request collection gets deleted unexpectedly when opening a dropdown menu2023-12-03
Curl code generation option doesn't show up in the menu2023-09-30
Can't find the option to create multiple workspaces in scratchpad2023-09-29
Constant large account banner and repeated create-account buttons clutter the UI2023-09-28
Felt janky and half-baked to use, so user preferred Postman2023-07-19
Cannot pause a bidirectional stream to send messages after waiting for responses2022-11-08
Newer version is unusably slow and has graphics bugs2022-02-28
Long delay between clicking send and getting a response, though the actual call is fast2021-08-17
Commenter finds the Insomnia interface quirky and unpleasant to use2019-09-23
Couldn't find a link to the source code on the website2017-12-08
Install reports success but the app is missing after the sudo prompt fails2017-12-07
Cursor is too thick, moves oddly on page keys, selection differs on click, and scrolling leaves a page-high gap2017-12-07
Green '200 OK' status next to Send looks like a button and gets clicked by mistake2017-12-07
Pop-up release announcements interrupt workflow and break the otherwise clean experience2017-12-07
Flat bulleted list makes encryption and sync features ambiguous2017-06-24
Auto-updater repeatedly adds a desktop shortcut, which the user finds annoying2017-05-11
Updating on Linux requires manually downloading a new .deb every time2017-05-10
Homepage takes 5 to 6 seconds to load, so user thinks site is broken2016-11-17