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Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#31

Post by chin7an »

paozac wrote: post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

Paw[0] is a pretty good native macOS option, at least for now. They were acquired sometime last year by RapidAPI[1], and since have released electron based versions of their app for Linux and Windows.

I’m really hoping they don’t go the 1Password route and kill their native macOS product to move everyone to the cross-platform one.

[0] https://paw.cloud/ [1] https://rapidapi.com/

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#32

Post by adhoc_slime »

woofcat wrote: post #25
adhoc_slime wrote: post #14

I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc. To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question…

Things can be feature complete, and they often are at many businesses. You need to build a solution to problem x. You do that and then the project is over. Outside of maintenance work it's a stable code base and you the developer move onto a new problem. Examples of this in my mind are things like uBlock Origin. I'm not getting bombarded with updates on that project. It does the job it sets out to do, and it does it…

This would be what I ideally think should happen, a product hits a happy place and is finished.

It seems, though, that when working in a business that you'll have many users with many use cases, you'll be competing with other software companies, the temptation is there to add the one feature more to please the user or compete a little better.

this becomes a very specific problem each group of developers / business must answer and maybe the ideal case becomes less realistic to achieve or at least have a general answer for.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#33

Post by jim180 »

chin7an wrote: post #31
paozac wrote: post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

Paw[0] is a pretty good native macOS option, at least for now. They were acquired sometime last year by RapidAPI[1], and since have released electron based versions of their app for Linux and Windows. I’m really hoping they don’t go the 1Password route and kill their native macOS product to move everyone to the cross-platform one. [0] https://paw.cloud/ [1] https://rapidapi.com/

No, we are not gonna kill native macOS app![0]

[0] I'm lead developer for macOS app :)

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#34

Post by mattbuilds »

paozac wrote: post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

I used to use Postman but now I prefer to just build my own scripts in Python. I use the requests library and can setup things however I want.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#35

Post by franga2000 »

adhoc_slime wrote: post #14

I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc. To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question…

I really like how GitLab allows you to disable the container registry, issue tracker, CI and every other module if you don't use/need it. IMO this should be the way to introduce new features where at all possible.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#36

Post by robofanatic »

paozac wrote: post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

I wonder how much of that was driven by the silicon valley VC culture. You won't get funding if you don't show growth and "innovation", which means catering to all kinds of users resulting into a bloated product with lots of bells and whistles.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#37

Post by 9dev »

jim180 wrote: post #33
chin7an wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paw[0] is a pretty good native macOS option, at least for now. They were acquired sometime last year by RapidAPI[1], and since have released electron based versions of their app for Linux and Windows. I’m really hoping they don’t go the 1Password route and kill their native macOS product to move everyone to the cross-platform one. [0] https://paw.cloud/ [1] https://rapidapi.com/

No, we are not gonna kill native macOS app![0] [0] I'm lead developer for macOS app :)

We own licenses for our developers too, and plan on buying more. Please, please, please, don't screw us over and change course later on. We really like Paw, and not being based on Electron is the major selling point :)

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#38

Post by robofanatic »

hbn wrote: post #13

Postman is so incredibly bloated and slow these days. All I want is a REST client, but it feels like every time I want to perform a basic task now, I have to dig past all of their confusing platform and cloud stuff that I have no interest in.

they shouldn't have moved the company to silicon valley

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#39

Post by lukevp »

jim180 wrote: post #33
chin7an wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paw[0] is a pretty good native macOS option, at least for now. They were acquired sometime last year by RapidAPI[1], and since have released electron based versions of their app for Linux and Windows. I’m really hoping they don’t go the 1Password route and kill their native macOS product to move everyone to the cross-platform one. [0] https://paw.cloud/ [1] https://rapidapi.com/

No, we are not gonna kill native macOS app![0] [0] I'm lead developer for macOS app :)

It seems unrealistic long term for any company to maintain one native app and an electron app across other platforms. Spotify did this for a while, but they eventually forced everyone onto the electron app. Something to keep in mind.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#40

Post by BiteCode_dev »

paozac wrote: post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

Incidently, httpie is getting a GUI: https://github.com/httpie/desktop
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