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> Overall, it appears this tool is in the same space as Postman, Insomina, etc. which has been plagued with rug-pulls and everything I've seen says it's likely
by VeryVito 8mo ago
> Overall, it appears this tool is in the same space as Postman, Insomina, etc. which has been plagued with rug-pulls and everything I've seen says it's likely to happen here too.
How so? Even without the tool itself, you've still got a collection of useful markdown files that perfectly describe your APIS. They're not magic nor proprietary, and now this tool makes them even more useful: If the developers are trying to rip anybody off, they're doing a terrible job.
This tool is for those who DON'T want to be locked into yet another cloud service: Its power lies in the formatted Markdown files which can be thought of us as a collection of souped-up `curl` statements that you may already be collecting anyway. This just lets you use them without copying and pasting them into yet another proprietary tool or platform -- and now that it's open-sourced, perhaps we'll see its magic spread to other tools, too.
This format-over-product concept is ideal for development teams that already keep their projects in git repositories.
By open-sourcing the project, the creators have made the rug-pull scenario all but impossible (which is the point of today's announcement, I think). Regardless, it's in the wild now, and there's no pricing page because the tool is free and open source.
- hypeatei 8mo agoJust because something is open source doesn't make rug pulling "impossible"; see: insomnia and license-change rug pulls across various OSS communities. > there's no pricing page because the tool is free and open source. Okay, then why is there a "Product" item at the top and a "real talk" (testimonials) page that has "featured" posts? It seems like the creators had something else in mind when creating this tool and it wasn't an altruistic open source tool.
- nikolasdimi 8mo agoone of the creators here - you are right in the sense that most tools start open source and then they close source. For us it was different/ the opposite. We first made it as a product and then we open sourced it. It was never our intention to make it a SaaS though nor charge for it.