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> 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 abou

> 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.

joshmanders 5y ago
> I wish I had $5 / user / yr for every person who says this about products! Yeah I'm getting Show HN: Dropbox thread vibes from this thread lol.
- tofuahdude 5y ago
  We need a "common business misconceptions for HN engineers" sticky!
  - ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
    Your posts are incredibly condescending. If you could at least make some effort to explain your thoughts, at least you'd be adding something to the conversation.
ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
Maybe I'm using postman wrong? Besides saving data, what is there to scale? And even saving data is likely a minor point for many who use this, they could export their routes in some way. Obviously dropbox has a sharing problem to solve, but I honestly don't see what your post adds to the discussion. Perhaps you could enlighten me to the problem that Postman is solving?
- tofuahdude 5y ago
  I mean, I have no idea how you use it, but I doubt you're "using it wrong". You're just not everyone or every use case. Expanding on that, just because you don't understand what problem it solves, why people would want to pay for it, or why VC's believe they can profitably invest at a given valuation, doesn't meant that any of them are wrong. It just means you don't understand from someone else's perspective. So when you say "This is one of those cases where a good dev could likely build a clone in a month. And it hardly needs constant updates." - it's coming from a place of ignorance to the other people's problems and their scope. > Perhaps you could enlighten me to the problem that Postman is solving? A quick glance at their homepage helps with this. "Build APIs together" and then the value props go on with "Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster." So Postman is about the collaboration and process of building APIs. Not about a curl gui. That's an expensive, big, valuable problem space.

joshmanders 5y ago

> I wish I had $5 / user / yr for every person who says this about products! Yeah I'm getting Show HN: Dropbox thread vibes from this thread lol.

tofuahdude 5y ago
We need a "common business misconceptions for HN engineers" sticky!
- ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
  Your posts are incredibly condescending. If you could at least make some effort to explain your thoughts, at least you'd be adding something to the conversation.

ApolloFortyNine 5y ago

Maybe I'm using postman wrong? Besides saving data, what is there to scale? And even saving data is likely a minor point for many who use this, they could export their routes in some way. Obviously dropbox has a sharing problem to solve, but I honestly don't see what your post adds to the discussion. Perhaps you could enlighten me to the problem that Postman is solving?

tofuahdude 5y ago
I mean, I have no idea how you use it, but I doubt you're "using it wrong". You're just not everyone or every use case. Expanding on that, just because you don't understand what problem it solves, why people would want to pay for it, or why VC's believe they can profitably invest at a given valuation, doesn't meant that any of them are wrong. It just means you don't understand from someone else's perspective. So when you say "This is one of those cases where a good dev could likely build a clone in a month. And it hardly needs constant updates." - it's coming from a place of ignorance to the other people's problems and their scope. > Perhaps you could enlighten me to the problem that Postman is solving? A quick glance at their homepage helps with this. "Build APIs together" and then the value props go on with "Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster." So Postman is about the collaboration and process of building APIs. Not about a curl gui. That's an expensive, big, valuable problem space.