Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by kstrauser » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:25 PM UTC

snapetom wrote: post #57

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.

I do too. It's in my toolbox of "things I rarely use, but when I need it, it's my favorite thing in the world".

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by AznHisoka » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

lwansbrough wrote: post #40

AznHisoka wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Insomnia too but wished it saved a history of my past requests. Other than that, it's actually much much faster than PostMan. I wonder if it's because it doesn't save my request history...

It does. Check the right side panel above the response. There’s a history icon (I think it may be next to the response time? Not at my computer.)

Oh wow. First time I found out about that. Then it's clear: Insomnia is 100X better than that bloated Postman!

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by ljm » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:39 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/

Paw’s fantastic, and a great example of a native Mac app.

I’d really like to see something similar in Windows.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by bovermyer » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 6:53 PM UTC

Why not just use curl?

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by slumdev » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #12

__erik wrote: post #8

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

I have to agree, I've been enjoying insomnia more, especially with the dark theme. I'm also glad the developer makes enough income on it. I also enjoy using Mockoon since it keeps a history of requests I make when I proxy it, very useful. I wish I knew a good proxying API tool that was a little more autonomous and feature full.

Try Fiddler if you're on Windows.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by jtdev » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

debaserab2 wrote: post #47

ossworkerrights wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Some of us just do it because we enjoy the process and like to see the things we make get used by other people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've never contributed to an OSS project with the goal of impressing an employer or padding a resume.

How do you pay your bills? Or do you just code like 23 hours a day?

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by thanatropism » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC

sidi wrote: post #48

gschier wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Does Insomnia offer hosted documentation of the API collections? That's the feature which keeps me using Postman.

Not remotely the same, but we use Swagger on the test servers.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by thanatropism » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 7:23 PM UTC

reallydontask wrote: post #7

patrickaljord wrote: post #4

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

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

Post-humanism is a thing.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by metanoia » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

__erik wrote: post #8

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

My team and I switched about a year ago now, haven't looked back. Postman was getting too bloated with features that tended towards a QA, or possibly even non-technical audience.

Thanks to gschier and the Insomnia team for simplifying my team's life.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by jareds » Thu, Jan 09, 2020, 7:31 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 :)

I'm not sure if accessibility is something you focused on or if you just got lucky but according to this thread I need to give insomnia a try since Postman is not concerned with making there software even marginally usable if your blind. https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/31...