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by a85 10y ago
The table on this page should help: https://www.getpostman.com/products
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by a85 10y ago
Reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13949208
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by a85 10y ago
Feel free to email me at help@getpostman.com and we can go through each of these concerns :) There is a big discussion on tab behavior on our Github tracker. There are different ways and workflows that you can adopt and settings that you ca
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by a85 10y ago
Naming things is tricky. Postman exists in the following places: 1. In-browser Chrome extension with a UI (Postman legacy app) 2. In-browser Chrome extension without a UI (Postman Interceptor) 3. Stand-alone/desktop Chrome app (can be
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by a85 10y ago
That's a valid concern and I believe all developers who are working on the platform will address this. If memory/power consumption on laptops was so draining just because something was in HTML/CSS/JS, I believe people wo
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by a85 10y ago
What you define as bloat depends on the system where you expect things to be running on. If we were building a super thin client which probably runs on a low memory device - it's worth saving the bloat on memory and CPU. Saving dev tea
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by a85 10y ago
We are working on connecting the Interceptor with the native apps. Need a few tweaks in the codebase. :)
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by a85 10y ago
"tech-illiterate massess...." I am very well aware that our audience is a developer tool and well again, people do not use tools because of the languages they are written in but because of the experience they deliver. You are brin
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by a85 10y ago
I believe there is some inherent bias here with regards to existing experiences and as technology improves those biases will go away. I am not talking about simple single-dialog box based apps either or advocating every single piece of soft
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by a85 10y ago
I could have used the term "users" to say the same thing. And everyone here might not be a user. And our existing users perceive the existing Chrome app as a "desktop" apps too. Postman existing as in-browser extension,
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by a85 10y ago
Postman founder here HN folks. Great to see the post get featured on the homepage! Lots of discussion about what is exactly native. I have posted some replies but some other points about the choice of words: 1. Postman has 3 million users a
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by a85 10y ago
I wouldn't say it is pretending if the end user experience is the same. Users don't use things because they are developed in a particular language. - HTML based components can be made to fit into OS styling quite readily and by ke
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by a85 10y ago
I am not sure why something would be inherently superior if it is using pre-built OS components. Any software can have memory leaks, buggy behavior, weird input issues etc. I'd rather look at the user experience and qualify something a
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by a85 10y ago
== yes but probably not ===
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by a85 10y ago
Yeah. That plus I believe it became exponentially difficult for the Chrome team to deliver a set of APIs for apps to replicate native experiences. One example was the menu bar. Apparently it would have required rewriting parts of Chromium i
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by a85 10y ago
Thanks for the comment! (Postman founder here)
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by a85 10y ago
I'd argue that the HTML/CSS/JS layer is more powerful and more extensible than any native rendering layer. We are building some awesome UI components using this: http://blog.getpostman.com/2017/02/28
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by a85 10y ago
We do have a subscription service now called Postman Pro - does API documentation (api.getpostman.com), API Monitoring, Mock servers, Team collaboration and it has a powerful API (api.getpostman.com). More coming soon! Postman - the app wil
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by a85 10y ago
Yep. :) Up next. (Postman founder here)
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by a85 10y ago
We waited and waited and waited for Chrome to fix this. :/
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by a85 10y ago
It's not just an embedded instance of Chromium. There are APIs that bridge the gap with the operating system. One way to look at this is that the UI layer runs on HTML/CSS/Javascript. VS Code, Slack etc. are other common exam
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by a85 10y ago
You can build this workflow using Postman Collections - chain calls + tests + other logic.
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by a85 10y ago
Postman can do that and a lot more as it has a proper scripting runtime. The runtime can be executed outside of Postman too so you are not tied to the GUI want to automate things (with build systems etc.). Chaining as a feature in itself is
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by a85 10y ago
Postman has a Mac version too: www.getpostman.com/apps
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by a85 10y ago
Postman founder here. We saw this coming a while back. Chrome apps have had several issues related to window switching and menu control. We have been waiting for a fix for these for ages but they never came. We decided to build a cross plat
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by a85 10y ago
Postman founder here. Postman do automated API integration testing using the newman command line companion [1] for Postman. You can build and run your tests in Postman and then integrate them with your CI system. 1. Newman: https:/&#x
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by a85 11y ago
Thanks for the mention. Postman can import curl commands too and then of course convert to all these languages. We are opening this up so that converters can be added/coded dynamically.
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Newman: a command line companion for Postman(blog.getpostman.com)
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by a85 11y ago
Postman let's you do both. Use the GUI for explornig the API and use the CLI (newman[1]) for integrating with automated build systems. The idea is that you should not have to repeat yourself at any point in your workflow. 1: http:&#x2
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by a85 11y ago
You can ping me at @postmanclient or email me at abhinav[at]getpostman.com. Would help in figuring this out.

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