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Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#11

$50? Ouch. I support developers making a living, but this is a market with a lot of competition, some of it free, some of it great, and some of it free and great. If it were $19, the professional looking UI would have had me pull the trigger, but $50 is way on the other side of of my price sensitivity.

This is actually a pretty common business model among a tier of "aspirational" mac applications without a subscription model.

See panic.com and omnigroup.com for other examples.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#12
I am for supporting other software developers and great tools but quite honestly its not worth the $$$

Have used postman for years with no issues and recently have started using this which I think is actually great especially if you have zsh and fzf for searching what you have run previously on terminal:

https://httpie.org/

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#13

$50? Ouch. I support developers making a living, but this is a market with a lot of competition, some of it free, some of it great, and some of it free and great. If it were $19, the professional looking UI would have had me pull the trigger, but $50 is way on the other side of of my price sensitivity.

I don't use Paw (I'm a Linux-on-the-desktop user) and I have no idea who they are but a one-time $50 cost doesn't bother me if it's something that is a key tool for my job and is demonstrably better than its competitors in the market.

In other words, if it's good enough for me to spend $20 on a license, it's good enough for me to spend $50.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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post #2

Anyone have any experience with how this compares to Postman?

Paw is worth the money. I have been using it for two years and I really enjoy working with it. The UI/UX is lightyears ahead of everything else I have tried. I haven’t used Paw for Teams but it seems expensive, especially for existing license holders.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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post #2

Anyone have any experience with how this compares to Postman?

Postman free is 1000 API calls/month if I see this correctly, above it's $8/month subscription. I'd rather buy Paw. Edit: Sorry, see comment. Thanks!

This is slightly misleading, that is only for their monitoring service. You can make (and I do) as many manual requests as you want.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found Paw to have much better UX than Postman. Plus it's not an Electron app which is always nice.

Maybe I'm lucky, but I've used Postman quite a bit and never ran into an issue caused by it being Electron based. For that matter, my favorite code editor, VS Code, is in that same boat.

I hate non-native apps. VS Code is so good it's forcing me to grudgingly admit that there can be good exceptions.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#18

I am for supporting other software developers and great tools but quite honestly its not worth the $$$ Have used postman for years with no issues and recently have started using this which I think is actually great especially if you have zsh and fzf for searching what you have run previously on terminal: https://httpie.org/

Our team of ~30 mixed roll engineering types are using httpie and dig it

We collaborate in shared tmux sessions quite a bit, though, so being able to open a pane and run it for others to view is legit.

Having used Paw, it is for those that must have a UI that looks like a traditional Mac app.

Nothing more of value there.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#19

$50? Ouch. I support developers making a living, but this is a market with a lot of competition, some of it free, some of it great, and some of it free and great. If it were $19, the professional looking UI would have had me pull the trigger, but $50 is way on the other side of of my price sensitivity.

For me, considering how this is a tool that I use many times each week and how tiny of a cost it is vs the average salary in this industry, $50 really isn’t extravagant, particularly if it means I can avoid piling on yet another subscription.

I value apps that try to be a good citizen on the macOS desktop, though, which puts Paw above Postman in my view. It’s likely that many don’t care about this aspect at all so I can see where overall value stacks up differently for others.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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post #10

I have Paw through my SetApp bundle that I pay €9 a month for. Don't think I'd buy it as it's basically the same as Postman though maybe a little prettier.

This is my first time hearing about `SetApp` but it sounds like an interesting concept. How do you feel about it? How many apps from it so you use often/daily? Worth the $10 a month?
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