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gradually start tightening the noose on the free tier. enterprises would be forced to pay.

by tsjq 5y ago

1-6 5y ago
What eventually will happen is that someone will get fed up and build an open-source alternative on Github. Rinse, repeat.
- option_greek 5y ago
  Insomnia is already pretty good. Other alternatives are also present that cater to basic usage (most of them as browser plugins).
  - zkldi 5y ago
    Can vouch for insomnia, have been using it for a long time now and it's been great.
  - madmax108 5y ago
    In-somnia is in-credible... And allowing import from postman collections means I've never once looked back. Postman is quickly trending towards bloatware, where _most_ people just want it for is for a GUI for curl and to share APIs across teams, but Postman becomes more and more bloated with "enterprise" features to justify valuations, while losing focus on the core demo that first adopted it! [1]: https://insomnia.rest/ https://insomnia.rest/ (hattip for the domain name as well ;) )
- bdjddd77bnd 5y ago
  They did their is insomnia iirc and another one. And script friendly stuff like httpie. And ide stuff like httpclient. That's stupidly high valuation
- bdjddd77bnd 5y ago
  Holy shit I thought the valuation was stupidly high at 225m, now Ive reread 5.6b, that's more than fastly market cap ffs insanity
- rocmcd 5y ago
  The space is already crowded, though (many of them being open source), for example Insomnia, Paw, Fiddler, Hoppscotch, and even Thunder Client (a VS Code extension). I suspect that the Postman investors are privy to information that warrant the investment (plus the economic climate being what it is).
  - bdjddd77bnd 5y ago
    Charles proxy too (paid)
- pjmlp 5y ago
  There are already quite a few, a JavaFX for those with Electron allergy and there are VSCode plugins for the Electron lovers. For the rest of us there is curl and Powershell Web-Request.
namelessoracle 5y ago
It's a GUI around curl commands. Any enterprise company could trivially spin up a team to build an open source tool that does 80 percent of its use cases.
- Ansil849 5y ago
  > Any enterprise company could And yet...don't?
  - throw_nbvc1234 5y ago
    Company i used to work for just hired a few part-time interns to build and maintain a custom version of Postman. Auto-generated web-forms based on the underlying service code. Then would offer those interns full time jobs on graduation and hire new interns to continue maintaining the project (with any ex-intern full-timers able to jump in and/or advice as needed).
- tofuahdude 5y ago
  "Its just X around Y" is actually a very common multi-billion dollar solution/business. > could trivially spin up a team Or they could trivially pay for a 100% solution w/o having to lose focus on what they actually do.
  - ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
    Is there not already a 100% open source solution? This is one of those cases where a good dev could likely build a clone in a month. And it hardly needs constant updates.
    - tofuahdude 5y ago
      > where a good dev could likely build a clone in a month. And it hardly needs constant updates. I wish I had $5 / user / yr for every person who says this about products! Kidding aside, I think this dramatically underestimates what it takes to build a product that solves the problems that Postman solves. "Curl has no gui" isn't the problem they're solving.

gradually start tightening the noose on the free tier. enterprises would be forced to pay.

by tsjq 5y ago

gradually start tightening the noose on the free tier. enterprises would be forced to pay.

1-6 5y ago

What eventually will happen is that someone will get fed up and build an open-source alternative on Github. Rinse, repeat.

option_greek 5y ago
Insomnia is already pretty good. Other alternatives are also present that cater to basic usage (most of them as browser plugins).
- zkldi 5y ago
  Can vouch for insomnia, have been using it for a long time now and it's been great.
- madmax108 5y ago
  In-somnia is in-credible... And allowing import from postman collections means I've never once looked back. Postman is quickly trending towards bloatware, where _most_ people just want it for is for a GUI for curl and to share APIs across teams, but Postman becomes more and more bloated with "enterprise" features to justify valuations, while losing focus on the core demo that first adopted it! [1]: https://insomnia.rest/ https://insomnia.rest/ (hattip for the domain name as well ;) )
bdjddd77bnd 5y ago
They did their is insomnia iirc and another one. And script friendly stuff like httpie. And ide stuff like httpclient. That's stupidly high valuation
bdjddd77bnd 5y ago
Holy shit I thought the valuation was stupidly high at 225m, now Ive reread 5.6b, that's more than fastly market cap ffs insanity
rocmcd 5y ago
The space is already crowded, though (many of them being open source), for example Insomnia, Paw, Fiddler, Hoppscotch, and even Thunder Client (a VS Code extension). I suspect that the Postman investors are privy to information that warrant the investment (plus the economic climate being what it is).
- bdjddd77bnd 5y ago
  Charles proxy too (paid)
pjmlp 5y ago
There are already quite a few, a JavaFX for those with Electron allergy and there are VSCode plugins for the Electron lovers. For the rest of us there is curl and Powershell Web-Request.

namelessoracle 5y ago

It's a GUI around curl commands. Any enterprise company could trivially spin up a team to build an open source tool that does 80 percent of its use cases.

Ansil849 5y ago
> Any enterprise company could And yet...don't?
- throw_nbvc1234 5y ago
  Company i used to work for just hired a few part-time interns to build and maintain a custom version of Postman. Auto-generated web-forms based on the underlying service code. Then would offer those interns full time jobs on graduation and hire new interns to continue maintaining the project (with any ex-intern full-timers able to jump in and/or advice as needed).
tofuahdude 5y ago
"Its just X around Y" is actually a very common multi-billion dollar solution/business. > could trivially spin up a team Or they could trivially pay for a 100% solution w/o having to lose focus on what they actually do.
- ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
  Is there not already a 100% open source solution? This is one of those cases where a good dev could likely build a clone in a month. And it hardly needs constant updates.
  - tofuahdude 5y ago
    > where a good dev could likely build a clone in a month. And it hardly needs constant updates. I wish I had $5 / user / yr for every person who says this about products! Kidding aside, I think this dramatically underestimates what it takes to build a product that solves the problems that Postman solves. "Curl has no gui" isn't the problem they're solving.