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    Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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    536 points helloguillecl | 11 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
    1. Chris2048 ◴[20 Oct 25 19:58 UTC] No.45648515[source]▶
    Happy with https://yaak.app/so far
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    2. gschier ◴[20 Oct 25 20:29 UTC] No.45648890[source]▶
    Hey, I'm the creator of Yaak! Let me know how it could be even better :)
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    3. criticalfault ◴[20 Oct 25 21:01 UTC] No.45649335[source]▶
    Flatpak and snap please
    replies(2): >>45650542 #>>45651023 #
    4. gschier ◴[20 Oct 25 23:05 UTC] No.45650542{3}[source]▶
    It's a bit lower on the priority list, but it'll get there https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub
    5. antonvs ◴[21 Oct 25 00:16 UTC] No.45651023{3}[source]▶
    Don’t encourage snap.
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    6. pablosanta ◴[21 Oct 25 00:41 UTC] No.45651193[source]▶
    Do you have any plans for scripting?
    7. rkagerer ◴[21 Oct 25 04:03 UTC] No.45652372[source]▶
    I'm stealing your thread to ask a question: How would you explain what an API Client is to someone who's never used one before, and has always just consumed/produced/tested API's the old-fashioned way?

    Is it basically "an IDE for playing with API's"?

    Is it only for HTTP-based API's?

    Does it come with canned functionality for popular services out there?

    I read this but still don't feel like I fully understand what it does https://www.postman.com/api-platform/api-client/

    EDIT: This blog post https://schier.co/blog/call-for-beta-testers made it click a little better: "...app that makes testing REST APIs super easy"

    8. vitro ◴[21 Oct 25 06:59 UTC] No.45653184[source]▶
    Hi, importing Postman's environments would be nice.
    replies(1): >>45653230 #
    9. vitro ◴[21 Oct 25 07:07 UTC] No.45653230{3}[source]▶
    And different colors for GET/POST/PUT.. etc methods, maybe :)
    10. criticalfault ◴[21 Oct 25 08:14 UTC] No.45653608{4}[source]▶
    Why not?

    Personal feelings aside, snap is working fine. It's maybe a bit slow on startup, but that's it.

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    11. antonvs ◴[21 Oct 25 09:41 UTC] No.45654046{5}[source]▶
    Every 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.