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Worth pointing out that postwoman is free and opensource. It is not quite as full-featured as postman, but for quick mocking without requiring registration, it
by scolson 7y ago
Worth pointing out that postwoman is free and opensource. It is not quite as full-featured as postman, but for quick mocking without requiring registration, it is a great option.
https://postwoman.io/ https://postwoman.io/
https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman
- ossworkerrights 7y agoOh look a free clone of a commercial product, let's all jump on it and undermine the devs of postman and insomnia, whom have escaped the 9 to 5 by building awesome tools, because that's what we do: we kill indie development with free clones of small projects.
- scolson 7y agocoughlinuxcough
- ossworkerrights 7y agocoughlinuxcough what? linux vs corporate is not the same as literally cloning every small piece of software out there for the sake of getting a job and glory.
- save_ferris 7y agoPostman has raised over $50M since they launched, they're not exactly two guys working out of a garage anymore. At what point do you classify them as "corporate"?
- postalrat 7y agoAnyone who creates a small but useful product should expect clones to appear.
- beart 7y agoDidn't insomnia start as a free clone of postman?
- CameronNemo 7y agoIt seems like insomnia is still open source, and the paid features are just cloud services.
- Spivak 7y agoOr ya know, since we’re all software developers and many of us need/want a tool like this we could collectively build a community version that we distribute freely and split the labor cost of development and maintenance among the people who use and contribute to it.
- ossworkerrights 7y agoyeah let's all split those 8$ it costs, because that's what will get us out of the grind. 8$ a month is less than two coffees, if you need to split such costs among peers then you're probably in the wrong job.
- lm28469 7y ago> 8$ a month is less than two coffees You can buy 1kg of coffee beans with that.
- save_ferris 7y agoYou're complaining about the very thing that allows OSS to exist.
- kstrauser 7y agoYour comment history shows an interesting grudge against OSS. Do you genuinely think we'd be better off if all software were commercial? I'm asking sincerely.
- ossworkerrights 7y agoI 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. Pretty illogical if you ask me. I'll buy a license for either of the two (postman or insomania), just because this crap needs to stop.
- debaserab2 7y agoSome 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.
- jtdev 7y agoHow do you pay your bills? Or do you just code like 23 hours a day?
- debaserab2 7y agoNo, but I do code sometimes in my spare time or I am sometimes able to utilize my work time to contribute if it's functionality my company needs from an open source project we're using. It's not like you have to sign up for 8-hour shifts in open source software development.
- kstrauser 7y agoAll of my FOSS work has been either directly sponsored by my employers, or stuff I've done in my free time because I wanted to make a thing exist for my own purposes. I don't know anyone who's burned themselves out writing free code to impress employers, so I guess I just don't see it the way you describe.
- paxys 7y agoBy your logic Postman itself is undermining the devs of curl and wget.