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by a85 11mo ago
Yes. The post is misleading and we have more detail on what we do here. https://blog.postman.com/engineering/postman-free-is-secure-... Postman allows for turning off history, keeping variables local, setting up a loca
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by a85 11mo ago
Hello 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/19789794958363
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AI Agent Builder from Postman(community.postman.com)
11 points by a85 2y ago|5 comments
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by a85 2y ago
Hi, I’m Abhinav, one of the founders and CEO of Postman. We’ve just launched a suite of tools to simplify working with APIs and LLMs in agent workflows, leveraging our network of 100K APIs to enhance and scale agent capabilities. Here’s a w
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by a85 5y ago
Not sure about the .bin format yet but will check with my team. The immediate next step is multi file support.
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by a85 5y ago
Scratchpad was specifically added as a feature to clearly allow people to use it Postman in an offline mode because otherwise people were confused about the distinction between an offline/online mode (Why is my content not showing up o
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by a85 5y ago
Many many improvements coming soon to GraphQL tooling in Postman.
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by a85 5y ago
You can do a 2-way sync now! https://blog.postman.com/the-reimagined-api-first-workflow-f...
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by a85 5y ago
We introduced two-way sync with GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket etc recently so you can keep your Postman collections inside version control while being able to work with them inside Workspaces. Details here: https://blog.postman.com&#
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by a85 5y ago
Not as of now unfortunately. It is very hard to maintain multiple codebases that basically do the same thing. It is doubly hard for software that is supposed to validate other software because as solving every bug becomes a nightmare. We ar
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by a85 5y ago
I'll look into it. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by a85 5y ago
That is incorrect. You can save requests inside Collections in the Scratchpad and send requests without an account.
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by a85 5y ago
Postman founder here. Thank you HN community for highlighting this feature. We have been seeing gRPC usage exploding especially in microservices driven architectures and we are looking forward to the feedback we get on the feature. A few ot
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by a85 9y ago
Yep. This is a work in progress. Watch out for an announcement in early 2018 about these and other description formats and protocols. :)
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by a85 9y ago
Sorry about that issue. We have been working on the migration from the Chrome app to the Electron based app for a while. The final set of changes in the runtime went through in v5.4 (collection level auth, variables, scripts etc.). Changes
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Use Postman to water your plants(blog.getpostman.com)
1 points by a85 9y ago|0 comments
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by a85 9y ago
This is where I believe we'd differ. Postman already had a "desktop" app in the sense that Chrome apps also existed as desktop apps and when we ask users to switch, they wouldn't. For most users, desktop apps = things th
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by a85 9y ago
Agreed. However, perceptions change as technology improves and overall the arc of software tools has been towards higher level abstractions unless absolutely required to go deeper.
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by a85 9y ago
Thanks for the comment! If you are on Postman Pro you can export to Github directly. There is versioning built-in Pro too. That said, we have improved the format a lot over the years to support diffing just with Git.
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by a85 9y ago
We are always working on making things better. Some videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCocudCGVb3MmhWQ1aoIgUQw
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by a85 9y ago
We don't need to change the chromium source. Everything is not sitting on top of Chromium. I haven't tried this just yet but node-pre-gyp allows packaging C++ too. https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp
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by a85 9y ago
Hmm. If you are on Postman, I'd love to get your help in debugging this. Performance issues that I have seen exist at massive scale for us - ~10K requests or hundreds of collections. Of course, working on optimizing for all of these ca
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by a85 9y ago
Thank you for the comment! I think there are ways to represent this better (just with a URL bar for example). Will look into it.
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by a85 9y ago
What if the application does have compiled libraries generated from the authored source?
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by a85 9y ago
Highest priority item on the list! :)
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by a85 9y ago
Time to market means the difference between dying and not dying. I built Postman as a solo developer for 18+ months so have seen the extreme end. Also, platform parity is not easy to achieve. Even within Javascript environments. Other tools
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by a85 9y ago
I am pretty surprised how some commenters here are using this argument. Of course, EVERY utility app should NOT be written in Electron. I have commented on the UI and keyboard shortcuts elsewhere. These are easily doable and I believe libra
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by a85 9y ago
So native would not cover mobile apps?
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by a85 9y ago
We'll investigate if that causes issues with Postman. I haven't faced that problem and I don't think there is a hard limitation on the platform where it can't be optimized. Hardware acceleration is not something that hap
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by a85 9y ago
It does a lot of things. The table should help https://www.getpostman.com/products (essentially everything with API development)

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