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About someproduct

Public API Network at @getpostman • previously co-founder/CEO of Orbit (acq by Postman)

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    We’ve put together a catalog of hosted MCP servers on the Posmtan API Network to help devs discover and test servers using the Postman client. Would love feedback.

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    Hey Abhinav, DX is such a critical component to a successful API, and historically "developer" has meant "human." As agents become important consumers of APIs, what are your though…

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    If anyone else is wondering, TIL the spelling “Hallowe’en” on a number of these postcards is a contraction of “All Hallows’ Even," and that "even" was a common term for "evening" i…

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    Comment #26420646

    Thanks for sharing this. Without having any more context, here are some thoughts to consider: - are there rituals that your community observes together? - are there milestones comm…

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    Comment #26420611

    Thanks for mentioning this. Truth is I don't exactly remember. I'd say the first 10–20 were friends and former colleagues. Definitely people we directly reached out to and invited …

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    Thanks! We definitely could've started with events sooner, IMO. The simple practice of getting folks together to meet and talk shop contributed to the sense of momentum overall and…

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    Comment #26416025

    First day? Maybe 5 people we harangued into joining? As for the first three months, it depends on when we start counting (I'd say May represented the first month we actually starte…

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    > I think this could and should be generalized into "Avoid surprises" Great way of putting it. When we were considering moving our community from Slack to Discord[1], we actually d…

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    Comment #26414149

    Author of the post here. Happy to answer any questions!

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    Comment #25665083

    > "We used the word "love" a lot at DigitalOcean as one of the key/core values for how we thought about customers and community. " Right on! We think the language we choose for our…

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    Comment #23655809

    Author of the post here. We compared each platform across ~25 factors, looking specifically at their utility for communities of different shapes and sizes.

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