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Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
- levonterteryan 9y agoBy the way, the web-sites of users who contribute their Postman API collections will be visible on the API collection page and will get significant traction :)
- raisnawaz 9y agoGreat
- levonterteryan 9y ago:)
- swinto 9y agoHow is this better than the original Postman Collections section on their website? They also did the launch recently.
- levonterteryan 9y agoThe difference is that we allow user contributions that's why our library is a bigger one. We do list those collections that are listed on Postman's official web-site, which are submitted by the API providers themselvves. So that makes our list more complete. Also we have comments and replies on each API page for users to discuss and help each other in solving technical difficulties.
- swinto 9y agoHow would the quality of crowd sourced collections be enforced?
- levonterteryan 9y agoI guess the user upvoting system that we implemented similar to Product Hunt or Hacker News would help to keep the quality of the collections high enough. By the way we have built this web-site without code based on a Product Hunt Clone template from here https://zeroqode.com https://zeroqode.com :)
- cupofjoakim 9y agoI'd love something similar for Paw or Insomnia. Not really enjoying postman like I used to.
- levonterteryan 9y agoThanks for the feedback, we'll consider building something separate for those tools. Are there many users for them?
- evv 9y agoNot sure about Paw, but insomnia is quite transparent. Seems to have over 30k weekly active users: https://insomnia.rest/transparency/ https://insomnia.rest/transparency/
- levonterteryan 9y agohm.. not bad :)
- swinto 9y agoWhat makes them better than Postman?
- halostatue 9y agoPaw can (fairly trivially) import well-constructed Postman collections.
- levonterteryan 9y agowill try that too :)
- owaislone 9y agoPostman is a monster. It's a pain to use. Classic example of feature overload. Also, they don't have an automatic release channel on Linux. It keeps bugging you to update to latest release and then sends you to page to download a tarball which you have to extract and replace existing install with. Just provide a snap package already. I was using Insomnia quite happily until it became really resource hungry and CPU started to spike because of it. May be I should give it another try.
- owaislone 9y agoOn second thought, the features are probably not overloaded but the UI is very cluttered which makes it appear so.
- levonterteryan 9y agois the UI for Linux same as on Mac or Windows apps?
- levonterteryan 9y agoThanks for sharing your feedback, we'll forward it to Postman. Did you use Paw? What is your experience with it? https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/
- owaislone 9y agoAFAIK, Paw is macOS exclusive so I've not tried it.
- levonterteryan 9y agoGood to know, thanks!
- swinto 9y agoDoes Insomnia offer a function of sharing the collections of APIs to collaborate, coming back to the OP? :)
- AngeloAnolin 9y agoGood collection, as well as links to the documentation available for each API. Side note: Why all the bash and hate for Postman here? Why not write an article and express your concern(s) there and submit it here in HN. Or better yet, connect with the team[1] at Postman and throw your ideas on making it better. [1] https://www.getpostman.com/team https://www.getpostman.com/team
- levonterteryan 9y agoThanks for the feedback & great suggestion! +1
- kuceram 9y agoGood point! However this looks as a duplicate to official api network https://www.getpostman.com/api-network/ https://www.getpostman.com/api-network/ to me (as mentioned below). On the other hand, I like that you can share your collections, rate them and have a discussion. But what if Postman team decides for the same? :-)