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Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans
- andrew_ 4y agoInsomnia is by far my favorite Postman alternative https://insomnia.rest/ https://insomnia.rest/
- devmor 4y agoAbsolutely love Insomnia for its GraphQL features. Made learning the spec a breeze.
- nickstinemates 4y agoKong develops a lot of really nice tools.
- paxys 4y agoSo the alternative to a partially closed source freemium app is...another partially closed source freemium app?
- andrew_ 4y agoIt's an alternative, and as stated is my favorite. If closed source bothers you, find another alternative. Or you could continue to reply insufferably. The choice is yours.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoCompetition is good, even if ideological purity is better.
- anaganisk 4y agoI dont understand the sentiment behind these kinds of comments. They listed an alternative. Since when did alternatives mean open source only? I dont see it mentioned in HN guidelines either. And why is closed source considered to be bad by default? I have no idea. There are wonderful closed source apps out there that are reliable and have been well maintained and never had any issues and nefarious open-source apps that did bait and switch, pulled off out of spite, shut down because of lack of funds and many more reasons. We dont have to be snarky every time someone tries to suggest or do something. We could do better by listing may be a favorable alternative. We are insulting both the developer and the commenter by being snarky.
- maxloh 4y agoIsn't it open source?
- avinassh 4y agolook into hoppscotch. Its MIT licensed - https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/blob/main/LICENSE
- pritambaral 4y agoWhat do you mean partially closed source? I thought Insomnia was fully open source[1] and I couldn't find any closed source elements after looking around. 1: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
- devmor 4y agoGood things never last. I suppose it's time to start beefing up those collection exporters to the multiple freeware tools that do the exact same thing as postman.
- paxys 4y agoPopular app takes VC money and starts charging users for previously-free features once the pressure is on to earn returns. Users – who have been freeloading for years – can easily move to something else (or write their own version), but would rather just moan about it online. This same scenario has played out 10000x with the exact same outcome, yet people keep expecting something different from the next one. Wtf even is a "local collection runner"?
- devmor 4y agoIts just a script that runs a collection of requests in a row, from your machine. Something every single request tool can do. A very basic feature that requires absolutely no resources from Postman's servers.
- paxys 4y agoSo then just..write the same script yourself?
- xeromal 4y agoConvenience is the answer to all the "why not do it yourself questions".
- paxys 4y agoWell then you have to pay for the convenience. Can't have it both ways.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoPostman seems to be moving towards not aiming at developers as their main audience. Instead it's for QA, support, managers who want to make some queries against the internal API but can't use curl to do so.
- devmor 4y agoI don't know about other businesses, but the primary consumers of Postman in my organization are QA Analysts, not developers.
- wzy 4y agoIt was OK while it lasted.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoIncredible this company had a $5.6 billion valuation in 2021
- gregors 4y agoThat's truly impressive. I'm having trouble comprehending that number for this product. Amazing. Hats off to the biz team.
- notatoad 4y agoi figured you must be joking, or mistaken and thinking of a different company called postman. but apparenty it's real. https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/api-platform-postman-valued-at-5-6-billion-in-225-million-fundraise/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/api-platform-postman-value...
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoI've never understood the appeal of postman. What's wrong with a python script + requests?
- phphphphp 4y agoYou’re about to get Dropbox’d: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- acdha 4y agoThat’s not a great comparison: the two tools have very different users, and if you’ve ever used Postman for anything non-trivial you’ve probably hit things which are but should not be substantial points of friction (secrets, OAuth renewal, diagnostic output, etc.) whereas Dropbox really did a great job of doing exactly what you wanted with a minimum of fuss.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoWell and that's it right? They get developers on board early, and techies, etc... then shift to mass market and remove features and add anti-features. Github, slack, whatever else. it's a big long cycle. Now I see tools like Postman and the first thing I think is "how do they want my money, whats their strategy financially", things I never thought when I bought a CD-ROM or a one-time license to tools.
- nickstinemates 4y agopostman gives you a lot "for free" in terms of development and you can ship your project around to other, less technical people, or to prospects as a sales tool. lower barrier to entry. this is a dumb change, especially given you're not using any of their resources so artificial constraints on the number of runs makes zero sense.
- brookst 4y agoIt doesn’t cost them anything to develop, test, maintain, and support?
- phaedryx 4y agoI use VS Code and I've found Thunder Client to be handy: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.vscode-thunder-client https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.v...
- berjin 4y agoI switched to REST-Client for VS Code many years ago when Postman wanted me to sign in. I knew that was the beginning of the end for Postman. It uses these amazing things called files. With files you can commit them to a repository of other files where your team can find them. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
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- avinassh 4y agoI was curious about how they are storing the requests in a file and if they follow some spec. I discovered RFC 2616 [0]. From the page's description: you can follow the standard RFC 2616 that including request method, headers, and body. POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name": "sample", "time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT" } [0] - https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html
- aPoCoMiLogin 4y agoor http client for jetbrain products: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-code-editor.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...
- helloanoop 4y agoYes, we need more tools that are cit friendly. If you are looking for a good GUI based client that works on top of plain text files, do checkout Bruno. https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
- scroot 4y agoFor you Emacs heads, restclient-mode is pretty good https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
- sidmitra 4y agoI've been following this for a while https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/ https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/ Although 2 features that would make this perfect are still open - Private self-hosting: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870 https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870 - sync collections with git: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870 https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870
- gregors 4y agoI ditched postman years ago, I really don't see the value in it anymore.
- pigbearpig 4y agoI wonder how much they're paying for Discourse to run their forum
- amanzi 4y agoI just used Postman yesterday for the first time in ages and loved how it had all my previous work saved in the cloud and restored it after logging in. Also, the pre-request script feature was great for calculating a signature of the request which had to be included in the request. Do other API clients have the scripting features of Postman?
- rangav 4y agoThunder Client is an extension for VS Code, has scripting and more features. You can also save requests data to git repo. https://www.thunderclient.com/ https://www.thunderclient.com/
- jicea 4y agoShameless plug: why not switch to Hurl [1], an open source cli tool to run and test HTTP requests in plain text, with libcurl under the hood? (I'm one of the maintainer) [1]: https://hurl.dev https://hurl.dev
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- chucky123 4y agohoppscotch is a good alternative. Even insomnia is going down the drain.
- soraminazuki 4y agoWhat bothers me about Postman is how they took ownership of the popular httpbin project 5 years ago and left it to bitrot. They haven't made a single commit since then, not even dependency upgrades. Now it has acquired 5 years' worth of CVEs in its dependency chain. They receive PRs to fix those issues, but all PRs and issues are ignored. Why take ownership of the project if when there's no intention of maintaining it from the very beginning? It's almost as if projects like httpbin are detrimental to their business. https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin
- aPoCoMiLogin 4y agoif you have macos I highly recommend rapidAPI https://paw.cloud https://paw.cloud postman is just to heavy for simple requests..
- helloanoop 4y agoIf you are looking for an alternate, please checkout the new and innovative api client Bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno It's free, open-source and fresh with some radical ideas challenging the current status quo. Oh, BTW we support infinite collection runs.. lol..