Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser (opens in new tab)

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4 pointslaurensr7mo ago9 comments

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I mean, isn't that a good thing? At least there won't be any security concerns during the outage. (:

People are just used ot it. Even with all the bloat. I'm helping up the http://voiden.md folks in an attempt to build an actual API devtool, not a tab+click API SaaS platform.

bronlund7mo ago

Imagine all the major companies now unable to debug or test API's. We are probably talking about millions of dollars in lost productivity.

What are some good alternatives? Postman is kind of bloated anyways.

jve7mo 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.

bronlund7mo 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 :)

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laurensrOP7mo 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/

laurensrOP7mo 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...

bronlund7mo 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.

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kiselitza7mo ago

I mean, isn't that a good thing? At least there won't be any security concerns during the outage. (:

People are just used ot it. Even with all the bloat. I'm helping up the http://voiden.md folks in an attempt to build an actual API devtool, not a tab+click API SaaS platform.

bronlund7mo ago

Imagine all the major companies now unable to debug or test API's. We are probably talking about millions of dollars in lost productivity.

What are some good alternatives? Postman is kind of bloated anyways.

jve7mo ago

bronlund7mo ago

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

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laurensrOP7mo 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/

laurensrOP7mo 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...

bronlund7mo 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.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse