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

I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost).

Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against expected responses.

Pretty obvious why if you use the software.

I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software.

That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions.

People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying to use aren't worth any money to companies.