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

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536 points helloguillecl | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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gschier ◴[20 Oct 25 20:27 UTC] No.45648871[source]▶
This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git.

https://yaak.app

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rmnclmnt ◴[20 Oct 25 22:16 UTC] No.45650125[source]▶
Curious to know more about the commercial licensing scheme for Yaak: if i’ve read correctly, purchasing a pro license if based on « good faith » as the features are exactly the same as the MIT licensed Hobby version?

Sincere question, been studying lots of OSS commercial licensing and always wonder what works in which context

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gschier ◴[20 Oct 25 22:47 UTC] No.45650400[source]▶
This is a conscious bet I'm making.

Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries).

The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!

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throwing_away ◴[20 Oct 25 23:06 UTC] No.45650553[source]▶
Having often thought this is how I would attempt to monetize if I built a developer tool, I'm glad to hear that it's working.

It makes good sense because companies actually have an absurd amount of liability to you if they violate your agreement.

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dylan604 ◴[21 Oct 25 00:23 UTC] No.45651066[source]▶
Without telemetry, how will you know that anyone at all is using your software let alone only within the agreement of any licensing terms?
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1. 1313ed01 ◴[21 Oct 25 05:34 UTC] No.45652778[source]▶
I am sure everyone making shareware in the early 1990's would have loved to spy on people to know how many used their software for free (and have a way to spam those users to try to sell more licenses), but they couldn't and just did without that.