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Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by ttul »

remote_phone wrote: post #86

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…

Software developers should realize that as their salaries increase (and I'm not even talking about FAANG), companies that are selling SaaS and software solutions have to charge more in order to continue doing the fine work of developing stuff.

At the same time, investors are demanding that their portfolio companies begin to take profits after years of blasting away money in favor of growth-at-all-costs.

In my SaaS company, we have also increased prices and changed product packaging to generate greater profits in the past year. Customers hate it, but if they could see inside the company, they would see as I do that the changes are necessary to remain in business.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by fxleach »

remote_phone wrote: post #86

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…

No one is complaining that Postman isn't free for business. Take another look at the article. In summation: "So, for more money, you get fewer users, API calls, documentation views, custom domains, and integrations."

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by skrowl »

bovermyer wrote: post #77
bovermyer wrote: post #64

Why not just use curl?

No really, I'm curious. What does a tool like this offer over curl?

GUI, remembering / grouping your requests, saving / syncing your requests to the cloud / etc.

It can generate curl command lines too.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by [deleted] »

remote_phone wrote: post #86

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…

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Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

#96

Post by Edmond »

remote_phone wrote: post #86

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…

The problem products like Postman and others (Elastic et al) are having is one of "have your cake and eat it too".

For the past decade a number products rode the free software love boat, the gambit was to get organic community love and free marketing and hope that it somehow translates into VC endorsed financial rewards. This does not seem to be working out as expected.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

#97

Post by TAForObvReasons »

skrowl wrote: post #84

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.

https://postwoman.io/ is also great for simple use cases (and is MIT licensed https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman)

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

#98

Post by gmaster1440 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #89

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.

Doesn't seem like it supports Windows, so in many people's case (including mine) not a viable alternative. Otherwise looks like a great product.

Re: Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

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Post by fxleach »

ttul wrote: post #91
remote_phone wrote: post #86

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…

Software developers should realize that as their salaries increase (and I'm not even talking about FAANG), companies that are selling SaaS and software solutions have to charge more in order to continue doing the fine work of developing stuff. At the same time, investors are demanding that their portfolio companies begin to take profits after years of blasting away money in favor of growth-at-all-costs. In my SaaS co…

"...years of blasting away money in favor of growth-at-all-costs" - Maybe those companies should go under?
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