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Holy crap postman is valued at 5.6 billion? I... thought it was someone's hobby project. Maybe something ran by a tiny team. Why did they even take funding? S
by com2kid 4y ago
Holy crap postman is valued at 5.6 billion?
I... thought it was someone's hobby project. Maybe something ran by a tiny team.
Why did they even take funding? Surely making a profit from the get go wasn't a challenge for them? It isn't like there is some huge growth opportunity for them outside of "gain more customers", and pretty much every developer in the world has known who they are for ages now.
- tyingq 4y agoTheir enterprise pricing is $99 per user, per month. Wow.
- treis 4y agoAbout a half hour of a developers time per month.
- allarm 4y agoThis is simply not true. It is correct for a tiny fraction of developers. There’s people outside of the USA and the Bay Area specifically. A lot of them.
- tyingq 4y agoI suppose, but it seems odd that it would be approx 2x what Intellij charges per year given the much more narrow focus of postman.
- outside1234 4y agoI mean why not take funding, pay yourself $400k a year to "CEO" it, sell equity at a crazy price in the B round, etc. etc.
- com2kid 4y agoThey'll eventually go out of business, heavily downsize, or pivot away from being accessible to non-corporate users. We'll bemoan their loss, and a lightweight competitor will rise up a few years later that is made by a tiny team who has the huge advantage of knowing what they are building. I am sure postman is one of those products where 90% of the common features are super easy to replicate, and the last 10% take 80% of the dev org to work on.