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Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files. [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file... [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

In our case, some non-devs use http apis too, notably QA. Bruno currently fills that role.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

Very cool. Can you provide clarity on is a commercial license is needed. The license appears to be MIT but the yaak.app website gives the impression a license is required, even stating as such in FAQ.

The commercial license terms only apply to the prebuilt binaries. You can build and run the OSS version for whatever purpose you'd like. Check the last FAQ on the pricing page

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

I was looking at Yaak, and wondering if you've plans to bring it inside VS Code some day? how would someone use this in a project that operates within VS Code Remote where the source sits on a remote server and isn't physically on the file system.

No plans for VSCode integration, no. It's only great because it's designed for a very specific use case and environment.

I'm not quite sure why Yaak wouldn't work in this case. It it because your running server wouldn't be accessible to Yaak, running on your system?

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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For a long time I used Paw, which became RapidAPI a couple years ago. Nice little app that does it's job well.

Lately I've just been using a Phoenix LiveBook notebook, with the Req package loaded into it. I can make requests, do arbitrary transforms on the data, and generally stay right at home in a language I like and understand

If you don't know elixir, I'm sure jupyter or some other notebook system would do just as nice of a job

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Hey, I'm the creator of Yaak! Let me know how it could be even better :)

Flatpak and snap please

It's a bit lower on the priority list, but it'll get there https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Curious to know more about the commercial licensing scheme for Yaak: if i’ve read correctly, purchasing a pro license if based on « good faith » as the features are exactly the same as the MIT licensed Hobby version? Sincere question, been studying lots of OSS commercial licensing and always wonder what works in which context

This is a conscious bet I'm making. Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries). The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!

Having often thought this is how I would attempt to monetize if I built a developer tool, I'm glad to hear that it's working.

It makes good sense because companies actually have an absurd amount of liability to you if they violate your agreement.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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I made a very simple lightweight yaml based Postman alternative called `yapi`.

https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi

Run this:

  yapi -c ./users.yapi.yaml
  
With this file:

  # users.yapi.yaml
  # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://pond.audio/yapi/schema
  url: http://localhost:3000
  method: GET
  path: /api/users
  query:
    select[name]: true
    select[tag]: true
    limit: 10
Or just `yapi` to use fzf to find configs.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious to know more about the commercial licensing scheme for Yaak: if i’ve read correctly, purchasing a pro license if based on « good faith » as the features are exactly the same as the MIT licensed Hobby version? Sincere question, been studying lots of OSS commercial licensing and always wonder what works in which context

This is a conscious bet I'm making. Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries). The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!

Excellent work! Looking forward your post about some milestone ARR boundary, the gory details of how you got there.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

So you sold insomnia, sold it, and then created another competing tool? There where no restrictions in the deal?
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