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No its not. :) Blog has no product description, and even the product description on getpostman.com (below the fold) is amazingly vague: "A powerful GUI platfo

by smlacy 10y ago

No its not. :) Blog has no product description, and even the product description on getpostman.com (below the fold) is amazingly vague: "A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing." So... It's a text editor? A test framework? What languages does it work with? Web APIs or native? Why would I use it over my existing toolchain?

tragic 10y ago
In the time it took you to write this post, you could have googled it like thirty times. What's your point? It's just a gui version of curl with helpful things like an editor for post bodies, persistence of old requests, stuff like that.
- smlacy 10y ago
  Point is that if they're selling a product, they could make it more clear what the thing they're selling is. I'm EXACTLY the target market, and they failed to entice me.
  - nuggien 10y ago
    You're not the target market if you couldn't figure out what they are. I've never heard of it but one look at the screenshot told me exactly what it is.
    - visarga 10y ago
      That's not a reason to have a poorly explained product or service, it's only a justification for not caring enough about clarity. But for developers, who see hundreds of libraries and services being posted every day, it matters if there is a clear explanation at the top or not.
      - nuggien 10y ago
        The target market are developers who are in need of a very specific solution that postman provides. How do you think most postman users end up at the site? They probably search for some very specific keywords on google, asked some very specific question on stackoverflow, or got referred to it by reading some very specific article on reddit/hn/etc. They aren't people with 2 second attention spans who can't be bothered to read beyond the tag line. smlacy's response felt pretty much like trolling to me.
    - fatal510 10y ago
      We finally have someone with a brain here. Pathetic that these people could figure out what it was just from the front page.
      - sctb 10y ago
        The personal attacks you've posted in this thread are not OK on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that continue like this. Please stop.

by smlacy 10y ago

tragic 10y ago

In the time it took you to write this post, you could have googled it like thirty times. What's your point? It's just a gui version of curl with helpful things like an editor for post bodies, persistence of old requests, stuff like that.

smlacy 10y ago
Point is that if they're selling a product, they could make it more clear what the thing they're selling is. I'm EXACTLY the target market, and they failed to entice me.
- nuggien 10y ago
  You're not the target market if you couldn't figure out what they are. I've never heard of it but one look at the screenshot told me exactly what it is.
  - visarga 10y ago
    That's not a reason to have a poorly explained product or service, it's only a justification for not caring enough about clarity. But for developers, who see hundreds of libraries and services being posted every day, it matters if there is a clear explanation at the top or not.
    - nuggien 10y ago
      The target market are developers who are in need of a very specific solution that postman provides. How do you think most postman users end up at the site? They probably search for some very specific keywords on google, asked some very specific question on stackoverflow, or got referred to it by reading some very specific article on reddit/hn/etc. They aren't people with 2 second attention spans who can't be bothered to read beyond the tag line. smlacy's response felt pretty much like trolling to me.
  - fatal510 10y ago
    We finally have someone with a brain here. Pathetic that these people could figure out what it was just from the front page.
    - sctb 10y ago
      The personal attacks you've posted in this thread are not OK on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that continue like this. Please stop.