Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by Spivak » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

ossworkerrights wrote: post #18

scolson wrote: post #5

Worth pointing out that postwoman is free and opensource. It is not quite as full-featured as postman, but for quick mocking without requiring registration, it is a great option. https://postwoman.io/ https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman

Oh look a free clone of a commercial product, let's all jump on it and undermine the devs of postman and insomnia, whom have escaped the 9 to 5 by building awesome tools, because that's what we do: we kill indie development with free clones of small projects.

Or ya know, since we’re all software developers and many of us need/want a tool like this we could collectively build a community version that we distribute freely and split the labor cost of development and maintenance among the people who use and contribute to it.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by ossworkerrights » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

scolson wrote: post #19

ossworkerrights wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh look a free clone of a commercial product, let's all jump on it and undermine the devs of postman and insomnia, whom have escaped the 9 to 5 by building awesome tools, because that's what we do: we kill indie development with free clones of small projects.

cough linux cough

coughlinuxcough what? linux vs corporate is not the same as literally cloning every small piece of software out there for the sake of getting a job and glory.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by save_ferris » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

ossworkerrights wrote: post #18

scolson wrote: post #5

Worth pointing out that postwoman is free and opensource. It is not quite as full-featured as postman, but for quick mocking without requiring registration, it is a great option. https://postwoman.io/ https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman

Oh look a free clone of a commercial product, let's all jump on it and undermine the devs of postman and insomnia, whom have escaped the 9 to 5 by building awesome tools, because that's what we do: we kill indie development with free clones of small projects.

You're complaining about the very thing that allows OSS to exist.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by ossworkerrights » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #21

ossworkerrights wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh look a free clone of a commercial product, let's all jump on it and undermine the devs of postman and insomnia, whom have escaped the 9 to 5 by building awesome tools, because that's what we do: we kill indie development with free clones of small projects.

Or ya know, since we’re all software developers and many of us need/want a tool like this we could collectively build a community version that we distribute freely and split the labor cost of development and maintenance among the people who use and contribute to it.

yeah let's all split those 8$ it costs, because that's what will get us out of the grind. 8$ a month is less than two coffees, if you need to split such costs among peers then you're probably in the wrong job.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by cordite » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

gschier wrote: post #9

__erik wrote: post #8

If anyone is looking to switch, I've far preferred using Insomnia to Postman https://insomnia.rest/

As the creator of Insomnia, that makes me so happy to hear :)

Thanks for your work! It's been a real help. I've been using it before Kong.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by TAForObvReasons » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #4

There's also PostWoman for free (no affiliation): https://postwoman.io/ https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman

*Free and Open Source (MIT license)

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by Edmond » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

For a more full feature set product there is APIMolder:

https://codesolvent.com/api-molder/

You get a mock server OOTB.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by save_ferris » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

ossworkerrights wrote: post #22

scolson wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cough linux cough

coughlinuxcough what? linux vs corporate is not the same as literally cloning every small piece of software out there for the sake of getting a job and glory.

Postman has raised over $50M since they launched, they're not exactly two guys working out of a garage anymore. At what point do you classify them as "corporate"?

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by CameronNemo » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:23 PM UTC

beart wrote: post #20

ossworkerrights wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh look a free clone of a commercial product, let's all jump on it and undermine the devs of postman and insomnia, whom have escaped the 9 to 5 by building awesome tools, because that's what we do: we kill indie development with free clones of small projects.

Didn't insomnia start as a free clone of postman?

It seems like insomnia is still open source, and the paid features are just cloud services.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by postalrat » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:24 PM UTC

ossworkerrights wrote: post #22

scolson wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cough linux cough

coughlinuxcough what? linux vs corporate is not the same as literally cloning every small piece of software out there for the sake of getting a job and glory.

Anyone who creates a small but useful product should expect clones to appear.