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Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by xeromal »

ultrafez wrote: post #78
xeromal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

Your first point is almost a meme at this point - so many products can be written off as pointless with the statement: > As a [type of tech person], [product] is completely unnecessary as you can easily build a similar system yourself by simply combining [tool A] with [tool B] and [tool C]. It's so simple! I'm not disagreeing with your point, but it misses the point that often the benefit of using a particular produc…

My comment is actually from the dropbox announcement many years ago. It actually is a meme. lol

Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by wferrell »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #39
sebmellen wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is Apple’s moat? They have an integrated hardware and manufacturing supply chain with their own OS and a proprietary chip architecture that no other device manufacturer on earth competes with!

It's just because they have money. It will take billions of dollars and multiple years for other companies to reach that but I don't see any moat except if money is the moat. Same with postman. Right now they are so much ahead in features that it would take multiple years for other company to match it.

Google has all the money and their phone and phoneOS are still second tier. It's not money. It's about picking a problem and focusing on it. Further, it's about picking the right problem.

Google picked "How do we save (an additional) 20B+ per year in cash payments to a competitor" and "how do we have a path to accessing the world's data ... that is on a phone." -- and then won at both.

Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by xeromal »

next_xibalba wrote: post #75
xeromal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

Classic HN response–"This is trivial to build"/"I could build this in a weekend". Setting valuation aside, clearly there is some non-negative value prop for some set of users who don't want to build everything themselves (as evidenced by the fact that they have a non-trivial number of paying users).

This is a meme from the dropbox announcement.

Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by TremendousJudge »

ehutch79 wrote: post #48
boredumb wrote: post #9

Insomnia has always served me much better than postman

Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh

Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it

Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by milkytron »

yankput wrote: post #76
finitestateuni wrote: post #16

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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!

This is a very uninformed comment. It’s like saying web browser doesn’t do anything that curl doesn’t. It’s technically true but not really. But it’s also technically incorrect. Even on request level, not speaking about all the things on top that Postman does, Postman also does grpc and graphql (edit: and websocket), which curl doesn’t. Once you start adding all the features, it’s very hard to replace Postman with an…

I'm pretty sure curl does support GraphQL. It's a little weird with the formatting but it can be done.

Postman can even export a GraphQL request to a curl command.

Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by Darmody »

I only wish Postman didn't freeze when adding a big JSON to a request. If you add it through their interface it freezes for a while in the best case scenario or freezes until you kill it.

Postman on my Mac is now broken because a big JSON (almost 1mb) is stored on one of the opened tabs which makes it freezes on launch. I'll have to purge everything and install it again, thankfully that tab isn't saved in my profile so it won't be there...

I think fixing that is more important that acquiring new companies.

Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability

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Post by bagels »

finitestateuni wrote: post #16
andrewguenther wrote: post #2

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!

Queries might have secrets. Maybe neither tool is appropriate for that. Reminds me of the acorn about Dropbox is just an smb share.
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