Shout out to postwoman, https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman which is a FOSS clone. No sync-ing yet but it's on my to do to add in basic collection sync support.
Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing
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#102Companies need to make money. People need to be paid good wages. I hate how people complain about paying for things that are useful for them. Most people expect things for free or very cheap and I blame the Apple App Store for that. Everyone expects their software to be free or $0.99 nowadays. Even $3.99 is considered too expensive. All this is doing is creating deflation in our industry. Software should be expensive…
> Software should be expensive.
Why? Shouldn't the price of software be determined by the equilibrium of supply and demand? Or are you suggesting there's far more demand than supply?
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#103I started using Insomnia a few months ago and it's been such a pleasure to use. I find it more user friendly and less "in your face" than Postman. Everything just seemed to work the as expected. https://insomnia.rest/
I find it much more usable as well.
Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing
#104Companies need to make money. People need to be paid good wages. I hate how people complain about paying for things that are useful for them. Most people expect things for free or very cheap and I blame the Apple App Store for that. Everyone expects their software to be free or $0.99 nowadays. Even $3.99 is considered too expensive. All this is doing is creating deflation in our industry. Software should be expensive…
I agree with you. I subscribe to @Patio11's philosophy of "charge more".
But, I think there's a massive amount of opacity and sneakiness in SaaS pricing. If you read Postman's announcement post yesterday, you easily could've walked away expecting just a 50% price increase when in reality you may have been getting bumped from $8/user/mo. to $24/user/mo. because of the new rate limits.
Companies should charge more, but they should defend the merits of those decisions, not try to slip them under the rug.
Edit: also, I'm not sure your claim that software is getting less expensive holds up. I can say for sure that business software has significantly outpaced inflation in its price increases, but our research on this didn't cover consumer: https://capiche.com/e/software-inflation-rate
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#105I started using Insomnia a few months ago and it's been such a pleasure to use. I find it more user friendly and less "in your face" than Postman. Everything just seemed to work the as expected. https://insomnia.rest/
I've been using it, and it works for my needs. Supports the various authentication protocols, and allows you to save calls in tabs.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Software developers should realize that as their salaries increase (and I'm not even talking about FAANG), companies that are selling SaaS and software solutions have to charge more in order to continue doing the fine work of developing stuff. At the same time, investors are demanding that their portfolio companies begin to take profits after years of blasting away money in favor of growth-at-all-costs. In my SaaS co…
"...years of blasting away money in favor of growth-at-all-costs" - Maybe those companies should go under?
They should go under rather than just raise prices? Seems logical to try raising prices first.
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#107I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://paw.cloud . It's a Postman alternative that's native (no Electron/Javascript garbage) with a simple one-time-purchase pricing model.
Doesn't seem like it supports Windows, so in many people's case (including mine) not a viable alternative. Otherwise looks like a great product.
I don't know any dev on a Windows setup, it's either Linux or MacOS. So this is a very serious question and I even up voted you out of interest. Do you own the admin rights to your dev work setup?
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#108Curl is free man.
Exactly my thoughts. Free and not that hard to use. I guess $96/yr is a good trade off for some UI?
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#109Works as well with GraphQL support added https://postwoman.io/ . Also, https://insomnia.rest/ is great Also for automated testing in APIs https://dredd.org/en/latest/ Both open-sourced. I will say one of the best things about Postman was the Proxy support, but either way doesn't works with the iPhone and other stuff.
The entire concept of that postwoman thing is utterly broken. Have they never heard of cross origin restrictions?
Yes, they have heard about cross origin restrictions. Postwoman gets around them by having an (optional) proxy that actually makes the request on the users behalf.
Whether or not you think this is a good idea is another matter, but it works.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't seem like it supports Windows, so in many people's case (including mine) not a viable alternative. Otherwise looks like a great product.
I don't know any dev on a Windows setup, it's either Linux or MacOS. So this is a very serious question and I even up voted you out of interest. Do you own the admin rights to your dev work setup?
I know of (and have done) development windows before. Especially with WSL and docker, things like a django application aren't _too_ problematic once you get around some of the quirks.
It's not perfect but it does work for a lot of web app development. You still have VSCode/Intellij, etc. Not to mention all those who develop windows applications.