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I remember when one of the "Core Goals" of Postman was "Complete control over your data - Keep simple JSON based data formats which can be exported and shared a
by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
I remember when one of the "Core Goals" of Postman was "Complete control over your data - Keep simple JSON based data formats which can be exported and shared as per user needs".
https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpostman.com/docs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpos...
- suriya-ganesh 1y agonot possible once you sign away your allegiance to a VC
- fuzztester 1y agosign in, you mean. sign away means getting rid of vcs.
- degamad 1y agoI read that as "sign your allegiances away from their current counterparts (e.g. the user) and towards the VCs instead".
- nurettin 1y agoI understood it as giving it up, not getting rid of. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Give+It+Away https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Give+It+Away
- zenmac 1y agoThere seems to be a common theme here. Some project gets traction, it works very well. Then they got VC money and the project turn to crap for the community. Not all VC project, but seems to be common theme. I also aware that devs need funding to keep a project going for the long run. Are there any better alternatives for funding now days?
- tombert 1y agoNot sure if this applies to Postman specifically, but I think a lot of software projects start out largely as hobby projects, and might not have even had an ambition of making serious money out of it, and as such there's no reason to be hostile to the community. Then a VC fund gives these developers a dumptruck full of money and expect returns immediately afterward. Something like Postman likely doesn't make a ton of money unless they're doing something anti-consumer like selling data.
- colechristensen 1y agoOne of the things I've thought about for startups are things with the general theme of "complete control over your data", how could I write something like this into the articles of incorporation (or similar) to make some of those values at least somewhat irrevocable?
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoWhen Postman started becoming shit, I started using Insomnia, which is also turning into shit now.
- sdf4j 1y agoGood thing is that we can start using Insomnium now.
- fithisux 1y agoIt is unmaintained. This is the cost of devs focusing on corporate gains and not their craft.
- afavour 1y agoI want to judge the devs for it but if a VC walked up to me with a bag full of cash and the opportunity to work full time on a passion project I can’t be anywhere near sure I’d say no.
- pmontra 1y agoThat bag full of cash will keep being a bag full of cash but the passion project will likely become driven by whoever hands you the bag and will head towards their goals, not yours. Anyway you'll keep the cash. It's not different from what the vast majority of us do with our jobs every day.
- scheme271 1y agoDevs have to eat and if someone offers you a life altering amount of money to work on their hobby project, a lot of them would probably take it. It's hard to turn down something that might assure your family a comfortable life.
- troyvit 1y agoThat's all good, and I hope they're happy, but they shouldn't expect their audience to stick around if they start to ruin the project that got them there.