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

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536 points helloguillecl | 2 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.528s | source
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stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 02:05 UTC] No.45651669[source]▶
In 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.

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1. rixed ◴[21 Oct 25 05:27 UTC] No.45652738[source]▶
And 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.
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2. f4uCL9dNSnQm ◴[21 Oct 25 10:54 UTC] No.45654427[source]▶
And 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.