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Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
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Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#122Why do I need to create an account with an email and password to purchase this if it’s not a subscription service? To add insult to injury, I have to agree to some Terms of Service that probably indemnifies this company from doing whatever they want with my data. Who comes up with these brilliant ideas? The Mac App Store is absolutely horrible (lots of bugs, slow, inconsistent, almost unusable, absurd certificate exp…
Honest question: what apps that you purchase don't ask for your name or email?
Asking for email, and sometimes name, is fine. Forcing me to register is absurd. There are lots of “indy” software developers that don’t play these games.
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question: what apps that you purchase don't ask for your name or email?
Asking for email, and sometimes name, is fine. Forcing me to register is absurd. There are lots of “indy” software developers that don’t play these games.
Fair point. I wasn't aware you had to register a full account to start a trial. That definitely seems a bit much and I don't see the usefulness as getting the user's email would be just as effective for conversion.
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#124Software engineers are an interesting bunch... Reading all the bashing comments about Paw not being free, I can't help but feel a vibe, that some people expect to be paid thousands of dollars and not pay a single cent themselves. Where does this entitlement come from? Good job guys! You made a fantastic product. I will always favor native apps over Electron hacks. I can't count how many times I've CMD+Tabbed to Chrom…
In v3 (not sure about older versions) you can set the default visualization in preferences. I set it to JSON text the moment I discovered it.
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#125This is an honest question, I'm not trying to be negative but I'm really confused. It would seem like best practices is that all of this is part of your automated tests. Tests that are checked in to your repo and written in code and part of your CI. How does a native app that is OSX only fit in that scenario? Or maybe I'm not understanding it?
As ing33k mentioned, Paw isn't an automated testing tool (at least not yet), but rather an app where you can experiment with your or others APIs to check if things are working, and have a visual feedback/confirmation of what you're doing. But that's actually a great question. We are asking ourselves the same here at Paw: should our app offer a testing/assertions feature? Our own server backend is in Django using the…
Testing would be great. I have no use for team syncing, so won't upgrade to the subscription version, and use Paw as dev tool when working on new APIs. Having tests in there would be convenient and would actually make me test things (I have a hard time making or updating unit tests, I admit). If it was able to continuously monitor my API server side, for at least when I push a commit, that would be great. I'm currently using Runscope for this a bit, but it's flaky and a bit too expensive for my light use. And of course I have to manually re-add everything I already did in (much more powerful) Paw.
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#126EDIT: I found more info. They're using RNCryptor. Hopefully not the C++ bindings! https://github.com/RNCryptor/RNCryptor-cpp/issues/2
We are using the RNCryptor Obj-C api. ( matthaus of Paw here )
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Asking for email, and sometimes name, is fine. Forcing me to register is absurd. There are lots of “indy” software developers that don’t play these games.
Fair point. I wasn't aware you had to register a full account to start a trial. That definitely seems a bit much and I don't see the usefulness as getting the user's email would be just as effective for conversion.
While we ask to create an account at purchase time, it's never needed for trials. Also, to work with Paw for Teams and share projects, an account is required as it obviously needs an authentication scheme for access control… -Micha from Paw
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#128Looks cool! Probably should specify Web API tool, though; there are plenty of APIs that have nothing to do with HTTP.
I'm with you on this, the wide use of the word "API" to designate Web/HTTP APIs is wrong. But we have to admit that if you talk with someone saying "we're build an API that does X", everyone will understand it's a web service, not a C++ library ;) So in the end words are just ways to communicate ideas…so we went for the simpler "API" wording. -Micha (from Paw)
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#129Software engineers are an interesting bunch... Reading all the bashing comments about Paw not being free, I can't help but feel a vibe, that some people expect to be paid thousands of dollars and not pay a single cent themselves. Where does this entitlement come from? Good job guys! You made a fantastic product. I will always favor native apps over Electron hacks. I can't count how many times I've CMD+Tabbed to Chrom…
All fixed! It was a nasty bug, and a terrible UX. A one-liner to fix, but hard to find :) Sorry about that! And thank you to bring that to us, aavotins!
Bugfix version Paw 3.0.5 has just been released https://paw.cloud/updates/3.0.5 (you can update from the app from Paw menu > Check for Updates…).
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#130I love using Paw. I'm no longer in the building phase of my service, but when I was defining my API and testing endpoints, Paw was critical in the process. My main feature request (and I'm not sure if any competitor does this, so please inform me if it exists somewhere): While Paw allows me to export code, which is cool and all, it would be very interesting to allow me to compose workflows, like, say Automator in mac…
We have actually two ideas in this area. First, as you mentioned, assertion testing. We've recently published a workaround (as a joke, but it's actually working :D) https://blog.paw.cloud/posts/secret-path-to-paw-assertions/ but a real alternative is coming next. Second, we are currently brainstorming around the idea of a good automation app. So somehow the two ideas may merge. We're not sure yet what would make sens…
Love your interest in the community. Thanks for hearing me out!