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Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
- mondainx 11mo agoIt connects to their servers when it starts up; have to assume their server is down. It used to be so much nicer before they added this "feature".
- beefnugs 11mo agoDon't you love how slimeballs cant help themselves though? Instead of just letting free and easy happen the one time a year they go down... they just spit in everyones face to remind them now they have time to go find an alternative
- duxup 11mo agoI think for the most part everyone has accepted that Postman grew into a monster that bloated with features and presumably that comes with online dependence.
- Pet_Ant 11mo agoIf you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish you give up your monopoly on fisheries. It used to considered vile that drug dealers tried to hook their users and force dependence... turns out that they were just ahead of the curve.
- AtlasBarfed 11mo agoIt's the founding economic principle of the British empire
- ozim 11mo agoPostman is little potatoes - take a look what was done with free YouTube. Bait and switch all the same only stretched in time.
- johnea 11mo agoThat's funny 8-) It brought to mind this quote: “It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,” From a recent article that came through the feed: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-li... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626691
- ozim 11mo agoEveryone accepted because it slowly became standard tool. I have business guys using postman and sharing collections is kind of must. I hate it, for myself I don’t use it but when having to share API stuff I have to use it because that’s what other people understand. Good for postman business, bad for everyone.
- duxup 11mo agoI'm at a smaller organization now, it was so nice when we all decided "no way" on Postman.
- lbreakjai 11mo agoWe moved to bruno, we're quite happy with it.
- pixl97 11mo agoTo second this, I moved to Bruno after Postman became an 'online' tool awhile back and it's done exactly what I've needed since.
- will4274 11mo ago$dayjob sent an email to everyone with postman installed and asked us to uninstall when postman switched to online. $dayjob IT still maintains a wiki page and includes it on the banned software list. Used to be ubiquitous over there.
- guessmyname 11mo agoSame at Apple; cannot use Postman.
- tobinfekkes 11mo agoMine used to be all local too, but then it required me to login online in order to work. But mine is still working locally now. If it stops working locally, what even is the point anymore?
- SamInTheShell 11mo agoThis makes me feel more justified in using Posting in my terminal these days.
- reddit_clone 11mo agoWe have moved all our stuff to Bruno nowadays.
- CodesInChaos 11mo agoI migrated to insomnia.rest when postman required logging in for basic functionality.
- infinitezest 11mo agohttps://www.usebruno.com/ https://www.usebruno.com/
- InfamousRece 11mo agoApparently Postman needs to be online in order to send “telemetry”: https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424 https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your...
- digitalpacman 11mo agoPostman is absolutely shit since it was sold. Stop using it.
- Chris2048 11mo agoHappy with https://yaak.app/so https://yaak.app/so far
- gschier 11mo agoHey, I'm the creator of Yaak! Let me know how it could be even better :)
- criticalfault 11mo agoFlatpak and snap please
- antonvs 11mo agoDon’t encourage snap.
- criticalfault 11mo agoWhy not? Personal feelings aside, snap is working fine. It's maybe a bit slow on startup, but that's it.
- antonvs 11mo agoEvery single time I’ve installed anything with snap I’ve regretted it. It causes all sorts of annoying issues, including e.g. preventing integration between apps because of its supposed security model. This is typical of consumer operating systems, like Windows, but not what should be encouraged on Linux. On top of that, Canonical is pushing snap very hard. Try to uninstall the Firefox snap - e.g. because it doesn’t integrate well with password managers - and install it using apt from the Mozilla repo. Ubuntu will later just silently replace it back with the snap version. I’m about to switch away from Ubuntu as a result of this.
- gschier 11mo agoIt's a bit lower on the priority list, but it'll get there https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub
- waynesonfire 11mo agoI switched to Insomnia, seems not as bloated for my use-case.
- cynicalsecurity 11mo agoIsomnium is even better, although it's been archived.
- gschier 11mo agoThis is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app https://yaak.app
- bstsb 11mo agowas going to say "what makes this better than Insomnia" before i saw this! > Having created and sold Insomnia in 2019
- gschier 11mo agoHahah, ya... :)
- jmarchello 11mo agoI fell in love with Insomnia pre-acquisition so I'm thrilled to see it has a spiritual successor. Good on you Greg.
- gschier 11mo agoI was so sad to see its decline after I left. Had to make it right.
- ibejoeb 11mo agooff 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 the convenience.) I haven't used postman or insomnia in a while since they went to the cloud, so I could just be missing it, but that's also a non-starter for me.
- frizlab 11mo agoRapidAPI (ex. Paw) does that AFAIK. Also, it’s an amazing app.
- kristianp 11mo agoHow many other offline and online things failed unexpectedly due to the aws outage?
- puppycodes 11mo agoYeah they really turned their product into over-complicated garbage instead of focusing on doing one thing well.
- fuzztester 11mo agoThat is true of many software companies these days.
- an0malous 11mo agoEnshittification, happens to every venture or private equity backed business
- chamomeal 11mo agoIt’s annoying that the marketing and brand recognition has worked so well. My whole company uses postman and it’s a huge uphill battle to use anything else. There are SO many alternatives. It’s curl UI wrapper with secrets* management! Why do we all need enterprise licenses?? *and the secrets were all exposed in logs!!
- S04dKHzrKT 11mo agoDepending 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-code-editor.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-files https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file... [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
- jiehong 11mo agoLast time I checked, they don’t support the exact same format in each product. Thus, we stick with hurl. QA seems to stick to robot framework instead. Some use Bruno.
- nsxwolf 11mo agoA lot of organizations have very large suites of postman collections that serve as API documentation, regression and QA testing… they often heavily rely on the postman Javascript libraries and have custom code embedded directly in the collection.
- whatevaa 11mo agoIn our case, some non-devs use http apis too, notably QA. Bruno currently fills that role.
- zaphirplane 11mo agoThe vscore one is a plugin from some random person, to be called built in
- esalman 11mo agoInsert xkcd 2347 here.
- theshrike79 11mo agoTIL about .http files. Thank you :) Converted a bunch stuff just laying in my shell history into actual actionable files finally :D
- jug 11mo agoThis could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab. Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in Electron and the cloud. Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh https://posting.sh
- dayson 11mo agoWow, I've been looking for a postman/Bruno/foo replacement that I could use inside a remote ssh server or remote dev containers in vs code. This might be it!
- blahgeek 11mo ago> could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app Wow, in a world dominated by gigabytes of electron application, people thinks 10 MB is the optimal size for a simple utility TUI app. As a reference, (from archlinux repo), vim’s install package is 2.3MB, curl is 1.2MB, lua (the complete language interpreter) is 362KB
- colonial 11mo agoTo be fair, Vim and Curl are almost certainly dynamically linked, so they get to "cheat" a little. 10 megs is entirely reasonable for a statically linked utility intended to "just work" when you dump it somewhere in your $PATH. Take the Micro editor. It's written in Go, and packs a fair bit of functionality into a single 12 meg static binary (of which a few megs is probably the runtime.)
- supportengineer 11mo ago640K ought to be enough for anyone.
- mangamadaiyan 11mo agoIndeed. It is the enigma of success in an industry with no franchise value.
- fuzztester 11mo ago- Bill Gates. And: The world does not need more than 4 computers. -Ken Olsen, or someone (in the mainframe days). (Both are alleged / apocryphal quotes. :)
- joking 11mo agomaybe it doesn't do everything postman does, but I'm very happy using the rest client extension in vs code, the http files with the api calls are commited to the source code repository along with the code is easy to use, does what i need, and is easy to share with my colleagues.
- hk1337 11mo agoIf you're on macOS, try Paw/RapidAPI https://paw.cloud https://paw.cloud They may be affected by AWS.
- clickety_clack 11mo agoPosting (https://posting.sh/ https://posting.sh/) is a pretty cool alternative I’ve used in the past. There’s no reason I can see why I would use a SaaS product for this.
- CaptainOfCoit 11mo agoI remember when one of the "Core Goals" of Postman was "Complete control over your data - Keep simple JSON based data formats which can be exported and shared as per user needs". https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpostman.com/docs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpos...
- suriya-ganesh 11mo agonot possible once you sign away your allegiance to a VC
- fuzztester 11mo agosign in, you mean. sign away means getting rid of vcs.
- degamad 11mo agoI read that as "sign your allegiances away from their current counterparts (e.g. the user) and towards the VCs instead".
- nurettin 11mo agoI understood it as giving it up, not getting rid of. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Give+It+Away https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Give+It+Away
- zenmac 11mo agoThere seems to be a common theme here. Some project gets traction, it works very well. Then they got VC money and the project turn to crap for the community. Not all VC project, but seems to be common theme. I also aware that devs need funding to keep a project going for the long run. Are there any better alternatives for funding now days?
- tombert 11mo agoNot sure if this applies to Postman specifically, but I think a lot of software projects start out largely as hobby projects, and might not have even had an ambition of making serious money out of it, and as such there's no reason to be hostile to the community. Then a VC fund gives these developers a dumptruck full of money and expect returns immediately afterward. Something like Postman likely doesn't make a ton of money unless they're doing something anti-consumer like selling data.
- daytonix 11mo agoYeah I was pretty damn mad when I opened postman and it was completely unusable. Can safely say I'm done with it now.
- xp84 11mo agoRubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great HTTP client (Tools -> HTTP Client) that I've used when I need this sort of functionality. I've been off of Postman for quite some time, since it got so complicated, and all I wanted was something to help me make simple web requests. (No disrespect intended to those who like Postman, it's just too overwhelming for my needs.)
- selcuka 11mo ago> RubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great HTTP client It's great. You can even paste a curl command into it and it will automatically convert and format it. You can then use the Copy button to convert your changes back to curl.
- ReptileMan 11mo agoI am against government regulation, but at times likes this (or your sous vide and washing machine requiring online accounts to function) the idea for regulations that mandate availability of local server for client server applications is alluring. And making all cloud functionality optional.
- throw_m239339 11mo agoOr just use an alternative, and there are plenty of them in that segment, no need for the legislator to do anything here.
- ReptileMan 11mo agoJust use an alternative is not a long term solution when we talk about customer rights. Because the enshitification marches trough the products.
- al_borland 11mo agoI moved from Postman to RapidAPI when Postman tried to get me to sign up for their cloud service just migrate my data to a new laptop.
- paradox460 11mo agoFor a long time I used Paw, which became RapidAPI a couple years ago. Nice little app that does it's job well. Lately I've just been using a Phoenix LiveBook notebook, with the Req package loaded into it. I can make requests, do arbitrary transforms on the data, and generally stay right at home in a language I like and understand If you don't know elixir, I'm sure jupyter or some other notebook system would do just as nice of a job
- jamiepond 11mo agoI made a very simple lightweight yaml based Postman alternative called `yapi`. https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi Run this: yapi -c ./users.yapi.yaml With this file: # users.yapi.yaml # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://pond.audio/yapi/schema url: http://localhost:3000 method: GET path: /api/users query: select[name]: true select[tag]: true limit: 10 Or just `yapi` to use fzf to find configs.
- ray_v 11mo agoThat's a really great concept and I could see how one could get used to the workflow with this! But, why such low stats on github?! I guess everyone is jamming on postman, eh?
- Crestwave 11mo agoIf you take a peek at the commit history [1], you'll see that the project started only last week with some very vague commit messages. The code is also quite messy and unoptimized. It's a cool project but not exactly industry-level software. [1] https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi
- jamiepond 11mo agowill be tidying/optimising as i use it more. PRs are welcome! this is totally a tool i made just for me, to solve my problems. hopefully other people like it too.
- AdieuToLogic 11mo agoThis is one of many reasons why I prefer curl[0] and a bit of shell scripting. With this approach there is no dependency on a vendor's servers. 0 - https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html
- ivolimmen 11mo agoSame but since a lot of bigger scenarios I need to test the scripting quickly becomes a lot so I often do this using Groovy (as I am a Java developer this is nearly the same). I now have a collection of scripts I often reuse and adapt.
- tcper 11mo agoI will phase out this tool, definely
- charlie0 11mo agoI'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.
- nicolas_ 11mo agoThere’s also Bruno! « Offline only - We take security and privacy seriously. Bruno is an offline tool and there is no syncing of your data to any cloud » https://www.usebruno.com/ https://www.usebruno.com/
- eYrKEC2 11mo agoI use a simple bash script: #!/bin/bash -x TOK="my-jwt-tok" case "$1" in get-foo) curl -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/foo" | jq . ;; post-bar) curl \ -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/bar" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ --data-raw '{"baz":"bap"}' ;; *) ;; esac used like: ./example.bash get-foo I know it doesn't have the functionality of postman, but this is how I build up interactions with a new API.
- liqilin1567 11mo agoI would like to put the request body into a file and use it with `@file.json`.
- CommonGuy 11mo agoI'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space. Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions [1] https://kreya.app https://kreya.app
- guluarte 11mo agojust use bruno+git https://www.usebruno.com/ https://www.usebruno.com/
- chasing0entropy 11mo agoUmm, just wondering why you never unplugged it from the internet for a few days(or forever)?
- naizarak 11mo agoI'm using an old version of Postman with their servers blocked through the system hosts file. I keep meaning to migrate to whatever the next best thing is but this setup just works for me.
- stavros 11mo agoIn the beginning, there was Postman, and we used it, and it was good. Then, Postman became enshittified, so we switched to Insomnia. Then, Insomnia became enshittified, so we switched to Bruno. Then, Bruno became enshittified, so now it's Yaak. Let's see how long it takes for one of these programs to break the cycle.
- rixed 11mo agoAnd each of those are just thin wrappers around curl I guess. We should be glad that some good free software could be produced in the past to serve as the foundation for today's greed.
- f4uCL9dNSnQm 11mo agoAnd Dropbox is a thin wrapper around rsync. Tools like Postman are convenient. JS scripting allows to extend it easily, like to make request with random test data. Anyway, the previous company I worked for banned it, as soon as it switched from local files to cloud based "collections". Older versions would be ok, but like others mentioned, Postman doesn't like to hear "no" when trying to auto-update itself.
- neya 11mo agoI ditched Postman for Insomnia (Open source) after Postman refused to adhere to customers to disable auto-updates for 6 years+. I checked on their GitHub issue tracker and it turns out, the solution was to upgrade to their "Enterprise plan". https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/6999#issuecomment-3424362009 https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/69... So, I said fuck it and switched to a real, open source alternative, Insomnia, instead: https://insomnia.rest https://insomnia.rest
- teunlao 11mo agoBruno + git has been perfect for our team. Collections in the repo, no external dependencies, works offline. Should have switched years ago.
- chamomeal 11mo agoI had a weird issue when trying to import via pasting curls. I got fixed, and it’s been totally 100% great otherwise
- o1o1o1 11mo agoOff-Topic: I read about yaak app as an alternative to Postman - can anyone recommend an alternative to Stoplight Studio for covering "the other side" by any means? I loved to use their free desktop app for building API documentations which can be used for scaffolding / generating APIs but for some reason I don't remember right now I had to stop using it.
- jicea 11mo agoIf you're willing to use a CLI, you can try Hurl [1]. It's is an Open Source cli using libcurl to run and test HTTP requests with plain text. We use libcurl for the reliability, quickness and top features (HTTP/3 IPv6 for instance) and there are features like: - requests chaining, - capturing and passing data from a response to another request, - response tests (JSONPath, XPath, SSL certs, redirects etc...) There is nice syntax sugar for requesting REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs but, at the core, it's just libcurl! You can export you files to curl commands for instance. (I'm one of the maintainers) [1]: https://hurl.dev https://hurl.dev
- barbazoo 11mo agoI feel bad for the engineering team that has to implement it all this way. Hang in there folks.
- imiric 11mo agoJust use cURL. It will never disappear, enshittify, or let you down. It's already modern, and has a great UI. It's available everywhere. It supports every protocol and feature under the sun. Those fancy features you think you need: you don't. Whatever you're missing can be easily added via simple shell scripts or aliases.
- heisenbit 11mo ago> It will never disappear They started hardening our images and curl went poof.
- polynomial 11mo agoBut why does the app stop working if telemetry can't be sent? Who engineered this?
- TheRoque 11mo agoStopped using postman from about 2018 I think. I think it was because I found it stupid to have to log-in to do API queries. I didn't even find it that ergonomic to use, to be fair.
- v3ss0n 11mo agoBruno is quite good with postman compatibility and it's own syntax
- a85 11mo agoHello all, Postman founder here. I did not time this with an AWS outage of this magnitude but I posted about filesystem, git, and offline support coming to Postman last week: https://x.com/a85/status/1978979495836356819?s=46 https://x.com/a85/status/1978979495836356819?s=46 Postman has a lot of capabilities now that require the cloud but there is still an offline client built in just for requests. Building sign-in and cloud features were not due to a VC-led conspiracy. A large number of companies depend on APIs (like AWS) and have thousands of services and APIs. Customers need to manage them and wanted us to build it.
- cucho 11mo agoPlease can you address the claim that Postman is silently leaking customer secrets to your servers as part of telemetry? https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424 https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your...
- a85 11mo agoYes. The post is misleading and we have more detail on what we do here. https://blog.postman.com/engineering/postman-free-is-secure-by-design/ https://blog.postman.com/engineering/postman-free-is-secure-... Postman allows for turning off history, keeping variables local, setting up a local vault all in the free product and in more advanced plans, there are secret scanning capabilities for IT and security teams. https://blog.postman.com/choose-the-right-postman-plan-for-your-organization/ https://blog.postman.com/choose-the-right-postman-plan-for-y... These issues are not unique to Postman and apply to all cloud products like GitHub as an instance. Products that are “offline” just shift the burden to the user.
- cucho 11mo agoAll good security measures, for sure, but the blog post you linked doesn’t mention anything about telemetry (ie request data sent to those *.gw.postman.com endpoints). As a user, it would be great to know exactly what data is sent to Postman servers (eg we send resolved query strings, we don’t send headers, etc), as well as to have an easy way to opt out of telemetry altogether.
- p0w3n3d 11mo agoThe red flag appeared a few years ago already. My company forbade us to use it. This wan no problem for me, because I mostly use curl, but people got upset. We thought this too much restrictive, but ...
- bpiroman 11mo agojust use curl
- tedk-42 11mo agoOK which dumb engineer unsafely wrapped the entire feature flagging / observability / telemetry tooling around the main process of the app such that it wouldn't load unless those libraries resolved?
- pjio 11mo agoQuestion: Do I miss something by not using Postman? My alternatives for development are "Edit and Resend" of a request (in Firefox) and plain old curl scripts for reusable examples.
- danparsonson 11mo agoNot Postman specifically but a client like that will allow you to prepare a whole set of different requests and save them so you can build up a test suite, plus some of them do things like scripting, chaining requests together etc. It's like the difference between a text editor and an IDE, so it depends on your needs really.
- ActorNightly 11mo agoThe only nice feature is being able to paste a url, get parsed parameters, and then edit all the things using the UI. Other then that, its same old curl.
- aembleton 11mo agoBeing able to easily switch between dev, stage and prod is useful
- ActorNightly 11mo agoIn terms of just issuing requests, you can do the same with either python or curl and just scrips.
- Mashimo 11mo agoWe use it a bit at our company. We have a collection file that includes a ton of requests with headers and body. Developers can with ease load that collection file and run it against their own server, and also quickly change to a different server with just a click. I guess a substitution would be a git repo with curl scripts and environment variables? We also have some non-tech people who use postman to run tests.
- bni 11mo agoStop using Postman and its ilk. Use .http files.
- lotfi-mahiddine 11mo ago[dead]
- K0IN 11mo agolately I really enjoyed using http files for sharing http example requests
- alabhyajindal 11mo agoSurprised to see no one's mentioned HTTPie yet. I reach out for their web app anytime I have to make a one off network request: https://httpie.io/app https://httpie.io/app
- moi2388 11mo agoWeb app. The entire point here is using something local and not web based
- goku12 11mo agoIt is a CLI app. I didn't even know that they had added a web frontend to it. Try this: https://httpie.io/cli https://httpie.io/cli
- moi2388 11mo agoAh interesting. I visited the website before but immediately was greeted with a web app. Thanks. I don’t see support for environments, is that right?
- kamikadzem22 11mo agorestfox for the win
- rcarmo 11mo agoI stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost). Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against expected responses.
- mattmanser 11mo agoPretty obvious why if you use the software. I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software. That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions. People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying to use aren't worth any money to companies.
- NitpickLawyer 11mo ago> People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying ??? Mash 'em, boil 'em, put 'em in git, next to your code?
- mixologist 11mo agoMy experience is the opposite. Teams that are knowledgeable jury rig their own custom solutions without all the enterprise cruft. They make solutions that fix their problem and they do it faster than the teams who use bloated enterprise solutions. I am tired of seeing over engineered enterprise solutions that that are implemented and never used because they can’t be integrated into the dev workflow easily. Simple bash script that does the task it was designed to do beats any enterprise crap.
- bravetraveler 11mo agoThe wisdom of pipes! I'd share these workflows the exact same way we share others [ie: BASH, Ansible]: Git. Needs nothing more than a directory, though an SSH daemon is quite nice. Those of us who can survive without desperate monetization plays are worth quite a lot, actually. They say 'jury rig', we say 'engineer'.
- rubenvanwyk 11mo ago[dead]
- pjmlp 11mo agoIt isn't working locally for quite some time now, hence why many companies have forbidden using Postman, given the issue of testing internal APIs with security information hosted on Postman servers.
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- jonrosner 11mo agoThats why I self host Yaade https://docs.yaade.io https://docs.yaade.io (shameless plug lol)
- kiselitza 11mo agoAh, yes, the cloud-dependent tool that forces you to pay per seat and log in for any type of collaboration is down when their cloud provider is. Anyways, the folks have spoken, no need to double down. There are more than a dozen alternatives to it, and new ones are coming up. I'm helping build a new one. - Completely offline. - Gives the ability to build reusable blocks (headers, query params, etc) - Let's you document everything in Markdown. - Imports your collections and cURLs. https://voiden.md/ https://voiden.md/
- kiselitza 11mo agoAnd yes. It's completely free. With plugin extensibility for anyone to build/install whatever they want. The CEO committed to open-sourcing it, as well as to not monetize on anything that doesn't introduce operational costs to the team. https://voiden.md/blog/why-we-rebuilt-bloated-api-tooling https://voiden.md/blog/why-we-rebuilt-bloated-api-tooling
- drcongo 11mo agoA little bit of feedback, I could barely read any of the text in the interface as the contrast is almost zero and the font is unbelievably small. So I tried Cmd+ to zoom the interface, but nothing happened, so I tried Cmd, to open the settings to see if there was a zoom level or contrast setting, nothing happened. I like the idea of it, but it's totally unusable.
- kiselitza 11mo agoHi! Thx for that. Can you please open an issue with a screenshot here: https://github.com/voidenhq/feedback https://github.com/voidenhq/feedback What you're saying doesn’t sound familiar whatsoever, but I'd really like to look more into it.
- chuckadams 11mo agoVoiden looks really promising, so I installed it to get started, and here's my hot takes so far before even using it. * The text is tiny for my old eyes. I figured there's probably a setting for it and hit Cmd-, and found there's no settings UI whatsoever. No keyboard shortcut either it seems, and no help menu either, so no searching for "keyboard" with Shift-Cmd-/ * .void files may be markdown, but no markdown editor will recognize it as such. Maybe support .void.md as well. I also couldn't find any way to edit the markdown source of a .void file from voiden, which is a bit ironic for a tool that loudly advertises the markdown format as a central feature. * Could there be a block that expands into the full URL of the request and parameters above it (or perhaps as args)? How about another that renders as a cURL command, which would cover POST/PUT/PATCH requests nicely too. My API documentation always has cURL request examples and I detest writing them by hand. * While I'm suggesting blocks, one that renders the response headers/body to the preceding request would also be handy. It should support a placeholder response that gets replaced when the request is actually run (and perhaps a "save" button to persist it in the markdown). Responses get long, so maybe have a max-height for the block and make it scrollable I'm actually really excited about Voiden and hope these can be addressed. It has a similar feel to Jetbrains' .http format, but an evolutionary leap beyond it. It also feels really raw and unfinished.
- fuzztester 11mo agoSomeone should make a better one called Getman.
- ch_fr 11mo agoI highly recommend checking out the postman forum for posts about the scratchpad being removed, it's a fascinating and frustrating read. It would be so much faster and easier for the postman reps to just shut down the conversation. And yet, for some reason, they keep it going for very long while still being extremely evasive when it comes to any concern raised about data sovereignty.
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- r_singh 11mo agoWoah didn’t know it was down but I’ve been facing issues for a while so switched to Bruno by someone’s recommendation and it’s pretty tight
- lunias 11mo agoI used to use Postman years ago; I never will again. These days I just use cURL and sometimes a rest client mode inside of whichever IDE I'm using.
- some_guy_in_ca 11mo agohttps://httpyac.github.io/guide/installation_vscode.html https://httpyac.github.io/guide/installation_vscode.html
- hoechst 11mo agoi'm still using postman v9 from 2022, which is pre-bloat and good software.
- inetknght 11mo agohttps://justuse.org/curl/ https://justuse.org/curl/
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 11mo agoDespite the strength of marketing, "DIY" is sometimes more reliable than "pay fees to so-called "tech" company"" and subject oneself to possibility of telemetry, data collection, surveillance and targeted advertising. But every user is different For recreational internet use, I use yy025 + TCP client + TLS proxy. No fees, no telemetry, no BS. I can select from a long list of TCP clients in this setup, e.g., original netcat, tcploop, tcpclient, socat, etc., as well as a variety of TLS proxies, e.g., tinyproxy+stunnel, haproxy, etc. I can modify the source of all the programs and can do more than is possible if using an "HTTP client", e.g., curl Of course I am not testing "web apps" for a commercial enterprise. Nor do I use a so-called "modern", graphical browser. I retrieve data without a browser. Since I use HTTP every day in textmode it is "interesting"^1 to see software that somehow commercialises similar HTTP use, e.g., Postman, Burp, etc. 1. For example, https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/postman-valuation-2-billion https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/postman-valuation-2-bill...
- unkn0wn_root 11mo agoI don’t personally use Postman, but at work we use .http files, which are easy to version and manage with Git. The downside is that you’re almost entirely tied to VS Code and the REST Client extension. I’m not a big fan of VS Code myself (I use Vim), so if anyone interested, I created resterm [0] - a terminal client that works with .http or .rest files and adds some extra "nice-to-have" features. I’m currently working on adding OpenAPI spec importing. https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
- klinch 11mo ago+1 for .http files Also, TIL that these are not IntelliJ-specific (that’s where I use them)
- mjio 11mo agoI love Yaak. After using Postman for many years, I appreciate how straightforward it is without being bloated. That being said, it would be awesome to have something inside Yaak where I could test API endpoints, like integration tests for APIs.
- mohsenmkh88 11mo agoI built chapar for the same reasons. It’s an open source postman alternative, currently supporting rest and grpc and scripting with python. Fully local and no hidden proxy. https://github.com/chapar-rest/chapar https://github.com/chapar-rest/chapar
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