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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: 0s | source
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rcarmo ◴[21 Oct 25 06:56 UTC] No.45653174[source]▶
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.

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pjmlp ◴[21 Oct 25 08:01 UTC] No.45653532[source]▶
We went with a mix of curl, Invoke-WebRequest, favourite scripting language, HTTP files, IDE tooling, Insomina, after Postman went cloud online and became a forbidden tool on our systems.

Also I am not counting that Insomina won't follow the same footsteps as Postman.

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1. teaganga ◴[21 Oct 25 14:45 UTC] No.45656481[source]▶
I wrote my own api invoker, https://placeholders.cc/api-invoker/, mainly because postman is slow, eats a ton of memory and it becomes more and more restrictive to non logged in users. In don't mind having an electron based application like open. but i hate to have 10 like it open in the same time.