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Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by gschier » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:31 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.

There's a nice community project that generates documentation that can be hosted https://github.com/jozsefsallai/insomnia-documenter

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by smokey_thompson » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

I 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/

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by Edmond » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

Full feature set alternative, APIMolder:

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

Mock server OOTB and a bunch of other goodies.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by skrowl » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

https://insomnia.rest/ is a pretty great alternative. The only thing you don't get for free is data syncing.

https://github.com/frigus02/RESTer is a Firefox (or Chrome) extension that does most of the same stuff that PostMan does without requiring a standalone client install.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by fjcero » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

Works 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.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by remote_phone » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

Companies 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. We don’t need unions, we need to change people’s expectations on how much software costs and not drive down prices to $0.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by oauea » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

fjcero wrote: post #85

Works 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?

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

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Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by Nextgrid » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

I'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.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by skrowl » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:08 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 :)

It looks like e2ee data sync is a paid feature.

Does the free version come with no data sync at all or just not end to end encrypted?