Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser

jve 286 days ago | |

Is that the only thing you can do - test or debug APIs? If so, finally you can do things you couldn't before - perhaps improve productivity by writing some scripts or researching alternatives if your job is really mission critical on postman.

bronlund 286 days ago | | |

I believe one of the selling points are the shared collections. So you have all the secrets and endpoints and whatever in collections that you share amongst a team. Now, noone has access to any of this and the hassle to set this up locally is way worse than you would think. Specially in large organisations.

So yeah, there are probably several companies looking for alternatives right now :)

laurensr 286 days ago | | |

What we really need is a community-driven alternative without lock-in. Many other use cases are covered by great FOSS products, but somehow API clients are abused as a sync cash cow:

- insomnia deliberately broke a 3rd party sync: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync

- I could go on

_lvbh 285 days ago | | |

(minor correction, Obsidian broke the 3rd party sync, not insomnia) Point still stands.

I agree it's an annoying problem, but it's hard to see a way around it. The developers was that they need some way to fund development. Sync tends to be the up sell target since it's more for power users willing to pay.

There are quite a few open source Insomnia and Postman clones. Since most of them operate on config and workspaces, I think syncthing is good enough for this use case at least.

laurensr 286 days ago | |

I've been using Bruno lately. It can use any directory as a collection, and I use git repos with my team to sync collections.

https://www.usebruno.com/

laurensr 286 days ago | |

The most absurd limitation in Postman is a limit on how many times your team can run a collection. Locally, on their machine.

Let that sink in: on YOUR LOCAL machine.

https://learning.postman.com/docs/collections/running-collec...

bronlund 285 days ago | | |

Yeah, it's ridiculous. Specially when there are good or even better alternatives out there.

Postman was awesome back in the days, but now it's just slow, bloated and too complicated for 99.9% of use cases. It has become the Microsoft Word of API development platforms.