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Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by gschier » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

rocmcd wrote: post #42

__erik wrote: post #8

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

Does the recent Kong acquisition not concern you at all? I'm looking to switch, but the ties to Kong make me nervous investing in the platform. Presumably because they might eventually make it always for-pay and/or focus on more enterprise-y features that I'm not interested in. I would love to hear what others think.

The one thing I'll shine light on here is that open source has been a huge benefit to Insomnia thus far. It has allowed the community to drive decisions, submit feedback, and make the application much more robust. Kong was born from the same model for its core product so we no plans to change that. A thriving open source community is a huge advantage.

If you're curious, you can read more about the acquisition from my perspective on my blog: https://schier.co/blog/indie-to-acquisition

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by sdan » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

One reason I use Postman is to check latency from all around the world.

Surely you could probably setup a ton of ec2 or gcp instances and try that out, but at least for me, Postman easily allowed me to do that (and might still stick with them even with the price hike).

If anyone does have any suggestions, that'd be great as well.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by numbers » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

__erik wrote: post #8

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

Same! I’ve been happy with Insomnia!

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by kstrauser » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

rat9988 wrote: post #38

kstrauser wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment history shows an interesting grudge against OSS. Do you genuinely think we'd be better off if all software were commercial? I'm asking sincerely.

I really think it's creepy to stalk old people comments before answering them.

I've seen this particular user's comments frequently enough that their username clicked in my mind. I promise you I don't have the time to go through everyone's post history.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by mrnaught » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

I work with lot of APIS (our team owns atleast 30 of them) switching between different environments and have found Paw (https://paw.cloud/) more productive than postman.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by Ohn0 » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:18 PM UTC

momentmaker wrote: post #17

reallydontask wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel that we need a new app called postperson :)

postdude :)

postbro

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by snapetom » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:18 PM UTC

UnbugMe wrote: post #2

If your team is using solely Mac, it's now more expensive than using [Paw](1). (1): https://paw.cloud/

I really like Paw. The interface is much cleaner than Postman. Postman has more group sharing features, but otherwise, Paw matches Postman's other features pretty well.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by speaker1 » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

momentmaker wrote: post #17

reallydontask wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel that we need a new app called postperson :)

postdude :)

postthey? :) as per [1].

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-ye...

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by rocmcd » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

gschier wrote: post #51

rocmcd wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the recent Kong acquisition not concern you at all? I'm looking to switch, but the ties to Kong make me nervous investing in the platform. Presumably because they might eventually make it always for-pay and/or focus on more enterprise-y features that I'm not interested in. I would love to hear what others think.

The one thing I'll shine light on here is that open source has been a huge benefit to Insomnia thus far. It has allowed the community to drive decisions, submit feedback, and make the application much more robust. Kong was born from the same model for its core product so we no plans to change that. A thriving open source community is a huge advantage. If you're curious, you can read more about the acquisition from my…

Thanks, Greg. I appreciate the candor, and I'll definitely take a look. It's great to hear that there are no plans to change how open the product is.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by kstrauser » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:23 PM UTC

ossworkerrights wrote: post #35

kstrauser wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment history shows an interesting grudge against OSS. Do you genuinely think we'd be better off if all software were commercial? I'm asking sincerely.

I genuinely believe OSS is great for sharing knowledge, but I also genuinely believe that no other industry out there has managed to play itself at this scale. Every single tool you want is made available for free by devs who burn themselves out writing free code to impress employers. Essentially, OSS devs have fought against corporate only to become trapped by corporate because now software has near zero value. Pret…

All of my FOSS work has been either directly sponsored by my employers, or stuff I've done in my free time because I wanted to make a thing exist for my own purposes. I don't know anyone who's burned themselves out writing free code to impress employers, so I guess I just don't see it the way you describe.