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Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by array_key_first »

dylan604 wrote: post #78
throwing_away wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having often thought this is how I would attempt to monetize if I built a developer tool, I'm glad to hear that it's working. It makes good sense because companies actually have an absurd amount of liability to you if they violate your agreement.

Without telemetry, how will you know that anyone at all is using your software let alone only within the agreement of any licensing terms?

You don't - ergo good faith.

You can be an Oracle and audit your customers and develop that adversarial relationship. The idea is that that sort of thing makes you rot in the long run.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by netsharc »

dcdc123 wrote: post #53
gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

You should consider updating your free license to allow some time period of professional use, otherwise it's not possible to evaluate it at work without violating the license.

It's possible if you build from source, even in the commercial environment. As the last item in the pricing page says, the license only applies to the prebuilt binaries.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by tharkun__ »

array_key_first wrote: post #81
dylan604 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without telemetry, how will you know that anyone at all is using your software let alone only within the agreement of any licensing terms?

You don't - ergo good faith. You can be an Oracle and audit your customers and develop that adversarial relationship. The idea is that that sort of thing makes you rot in the long run.

How's that been going for Oracle so far?

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by kyawzazaw »

exasperaited wrote: post #79
gschier wrote: post #63

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No plans for VSCode integration, no. It's only great because it's designed for a very specific use case and environment. I'm not quite sure why Yaak wouldn't work in this case. It it because your running server wouldn't be accessible to Yaak, running on your system?

In case you aren’t familiar (and with apologies for my verbosity if you are): VSCode Remote can be best understood as a sort of hybrid of a local text editor and a remote web-based or X11 view of an editor for a remote session. When you use a remote, the code is on the remote and all your editing functions (search, version control, terminal, extensions) happen in the remote via a worker process. So in a remote sessio…

probably too much work for a solo dev

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by mrbombastic »

frizlab wrote: post #33
ibejoeb wrote: post #31

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off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for th…

RapidAPI (ex. Paw) does that AFAIK. Also, it’s an amazing app.

Still mad about the boring rebrand from Paw but it is still a nice app

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by zaphirplane »

S04dKHzrKT wrote: post #32

Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files. [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file... [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

The vscore one is a plugin from some random person, to be called built in

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by charlie0 »

I'm looking at alternatives that are guarantee to work locally and only found the following:

Posting.sh -> Postman imports are experimental which makes it a non-starter for people like myself with large Postman collections. TUI only also makes it harder to switch.

Insomnia -> Owned by another large tech company.

Yaak -> Made by the same guy who created AND SOLD Insomnia above. Not exactly comforting to switch over for. How long till this one also gets sold?

Any other great local tools out there? I would like to be done with Postman.

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