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Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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post #6

Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).

Curl is not sufficient for rapid experimentation against an API.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#13
post #6

Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).

Nope

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#14
Yes, it happened to me as well.

Fortunately I regularly export the collections that still matter.

Now I am no longer a Postman user, as due to NDA's we aren't allowed to store project data on them.

Paying was never an issue, not having a secure alternative is what killed it for us.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#15
post #6

Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).

for individual users, i've not quite got the appeal of postman.

in larger teams, I did see groups of people collaboratively creating various urls/scripts/tests, and putting some docs with them, to help with the dev and testing (mostly qa/test folks). that was, imo, a relatively legitimate use for a full tool like postman.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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post #6

Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).

I really like the built-in `.http` file clients in IntelliJ products. You can paste from CURL and copy to CURL, so interop with CLI commands is very easy.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.ht...

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#20
As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app. It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally.

As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.

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