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Really? I haven't used Postman since Insomnia came out. What's keeping you with Postman?
Isn't Insomnia the same? The parent company (KongHQ) is also backed by VCs @ 1.2B valuation. Whats the difference/better?
Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
Now they are forcing to register to their platform to continue using the collections for free. So most of the users will have to enter their data, or just leave the product (difficult, there's not that much alternative)
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Google has a search index. Apple has hardware & manufacturing IP.
How is search index a moat? It's hard to build, yes, but there is no moat here and anyone can build it as long as they have infra, talent and money. Also for Apple while I am not sure, but looking at the Android phones there is hardly any feature of Apple which hasn't been covered by some Android phone, so I don't think IP is an issue. It's just that overall quality is much more consistent for Apple across generation…
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Does postman do anything curl doesn’t? When I was on onboarding at a job my pair started teaching me postman, which ended with me teaching them curl and them dropping postman. If you need to share queries, put them in version control!
postman was essentially built as a easy GUI version of curl. Once it went the VC route it kinda jumped the shark.
I prefer this VS Code plugin for the very simple stuff https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
I'm sure there's a gap for a "better postman" that's more complex that that, but a lot less encrusted than postman.
However IMHO, the more complex scripted testing is better done in your main dev language
Source: I have been working with Postman a lot this week. It's bad.
Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
Does postman do anything curl doesn’t? When I was on onboarding at a job my pair started teaching me postman, which ended with me teaching them curl and them dropping postman. If you need to share queries, put them in version control!
2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.
3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
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Really? I haven't used Postman since Insomnia came out. What's keeping you with Postman?
Isn't Insomnia the same? The parent company (KongHQ) is also backed by VCs @ 1.2B valuation. Whats the difference/better?
That said, powerful observability tools (Solarwinds anyone?) are really hard to make persistently secure, especially as they grow in their cumulative observations. I'm not really sure there exists a turn-key approach to secure these systems at scale without oppressive overhead or a near perfect team.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear about a mis-configured security group on an Akita instance caused a sev1 within 5 years.
Definitely not unique to either Akita or Postman but always worth discussing IMO
Congrats to Jean and the Akita team!
Insomnia has always served me much better than postman
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Does postman do anything curl doesn’t? When I was on onboarding at a job my pair started teaching me postman, which ended with me teaching them curl and them dropping postman. If you need to share queries, put them in version control!
postman was essentially built as a easy GUI version of curl. Once it went the VC route it kinda jumped the shark.
In general I like Postman because of the ergonomics, not because it does something that more primordial tools can't. Makes debugging easier.
Insomnia has always served me much better than postman
Postman was the way to go when it first came out. But then they started throwing everything into it so it became the most convoluted and horrible ux I could imagine. I also switched to Insomnia, and it's like going back in time to the cleanliness of Postman way back when.