[HN Gopher] Postman which I thought worked locally on my compute...
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Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
Author : helloguillecl
Score : 117 points
Date : 2025-10-20 15:40 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (status.postman.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (status.postman.com)
| mondainx wrote:
| It connects to their servers when it starts up; have to assume
| their server is down. It used to be so much nicer before they
| added this "feature".
| beefnugs wrote:
| Don't you love how slimeballs cant help themselves though?
| Instead of just letting free and easy happen the one time a
| year they go down... they just spit in everyones face to remind
| them now they have time to go find an alternative
| duxup wrote:
| I think for the most part everyone has accepted that Postman grew
| into a monster that bloated with features and presumably that
| comes with online dependence.
| Pet_Ant wrote:
| If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach a
| man to fish you give up your monopoly on fisheries.
|
| It used to considered vile that drug dealers tried to hook
| their users and force dependence... turns out that they were
| just ahead of the curve.
| AtlasBarfed wrote:
| It's the founding economic principle of the British empire
| ozim wrote:
| Postman is little potatoes - take a look what was done with
| free YouTube. Bait and switch all the same only stretched in
| time.
| johnea wrote:
| That's funny 8-)
|
| It brought to mind this quote:
|
| "It's only software developers and drug dealers who call
| people users,"
|
| From a recent article that came through the feed:
|
| https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-
| li...
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626691
| ozim wrote:
| Everyone accepted because it slowly became standard tool. I
| have business guys using postman and sharing collections is
| kind of must.
|
| I hate it, for myself I don't use it but when having to share
| API stuff I have to use it because that's what other people
| understand.
|
| Good for postman business, bad for everyone.
| duxup wrote:
| I'm at a smaller organization now, it was so nice when we all
| decided "no way" on Postman.
| s09dfhks wrote:
| I switched all my stuff over to bruno. what are you using?
| lbreakjai wrote:
| We moved to bruno, we're quite happy with it.
| pixl97 wrote:
| To second this, I moved to Bruno after Postman became an
| 'online' tool awhile back and it's done exactly what I've
| needed since.
| tobinfekkes wrote:
| Mine used to be all local too, but then it required me to login
| online in order to work.
|
| But mine is still working locally now. If it stops working
| locally, what even is the point anymore?
| SamInTheShell wrote:
| This makes me feel more justified in using Posting in my terminal
| these days.
| reddit_clone wrote:
| We have moved all our stuff to Bruno nowadays.
| CodesInChaos wrote:
| I migrated to insomnia.rest when postman required logging in for
| basic functionality.
| infinitezest wrote:
| https://www.usebruno.com/
| InfamousRece wrote:
| Apparently Postman needs to be online in order to send
| "telemetry": https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-
| all-your...
| bigiain wrote:
| "needs"...
| digitalpacman wrote:
| Postman is absolutely shit since it was sold. Stop using it.
| Chris2048 wrote:
| Happy with https://yaak.app/so far
| gschier wrote:
| Hey, I'm the creator of Yaak! Let me know how it could be even
| better :)
| criticalfault wrote:
| Flatpak and snap please
| waynesonfire wrote:
| I switched to Insomnia, seems not as bloated for my use-case.
| gschier wrote:
| 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
| bstsb wrote:
| was going to say "what makes this better than Insomnia" before
| i saw this!
|
| > Having created and sold Insomnia in 2019
| gschier wrote:
| Hahah, ya... :)
| jmarchello wrote:
| I fell in love with Insomnia pre-acquisition so I'm thrilled to
| see it has a spiritual successor. Good on you Greg.
| gschier wrote:
| I was so sad to see its decline after I left. Had to make it
| right.
| ibejoeb wrote:
| off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick
| answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and
| handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is
| that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map
| it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make
| external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a
| hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for the
| convenience.)
|
| I haven't used postman or insomnia in a while since they went
| to the cloud, so I could just be missing it, but that's also a
| non-starter for me.
| frizlab wrote:
| RapidAPI (ex. Paw) does that AFAIK.
|
| Also, it's an amazing app.
| gschier wrote:
| Yaak does this out of the box. It pops open a browser window
| and intercepts any redirect. And auto refresh is built in as
| well.
| ibejoeb wrote:
| Awesome. Downloaded. Thanks!
| EspadaV9 wrote:
| Been using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from
| source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post
| open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love
| getting a little look behind the curtains.
|
| [1]: https://yaak.app/open
| gschier wrote:
| Nice! Yep, trying to be as open and accessible as possible
| since so much of the industry is the opposite.
| rmnclmnt wrote:
| 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
| maccard wrote:
| If I asked my security team could I use yaak, they would
| (probably) say yes, and legal would say under no
| circumstances am I to use a personal license, they will pay
| for a commercial license. Large companies are incredibly risk
| averse when it comes to stuff like this.
| gschier wrote:
| 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!
| dayson wrote:
| I was looking at Yaak, and wondering if you've plans to bring
| it inside VS Code some day?
|
| how would someone use this in a project that operates within VS
| Code Remote where the source sits on a remote server and isn't
| physically on the file system.
| dcdc123 wrote:
| You should consider updating your free license to allow some
| time period of professional use, otherwise it's not possible to
| evaluate it at work without violating the license.
| gschier wrote:
| You get a 30-day trial
| alberth wrote:
| Very cool.
|
| Can you provide clarity on is a commercial license is needed.
| The license appears to be MIT but the yaak.app website gives
| the impression a license is required, even stating as such in
| FAQ.
| gschier wrote:
| The commercial license terms only apply to the prebuilt
| binaries. You can build and run the OSS version for whatever
| purpose you'd like. Check the last FAQ on the pricing page
| kristianp wrote:
| How many other offline and online things failed unexpectedly due
| to the aws outage?
| puppycodes wrote:
| Yeah they really turned their product into over-complicated
| garbage instead of focusing on doing one thing well.
| fuzztester wrote:
| That is true of many software companies these days.
| S04dKHzrKT wrote:
| Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app.
| Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for
| http files.
|
| [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-
| product-c...
|
| [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-
| file...
|
| [2]:
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
| nsxwolf wrote:
| A lot of organizations have very large suites of postman
| collections that serve as API documentation, regression and QA
| testing... they often heavily rely on the postman Javascript
| libraries and have custom code embedded directly in the
| collection.
| jiehong wrote:
| Last time I checked, they don't support the exact same format
| in each product.
|
| Thus, we stick with hurl.
|
| QA seems to stick to robot framework instead. Some use Bruno.
| whatevaa wrote:
| In our case, some non-devs use http apis too, notably QA. Bruno
| currently fills that role.
| jug wrote:
| This could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab.
| Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in
| Electron and the cloud.
|
| Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh
| dayson wrote:
| Wow, I've been looking for a postman/Bruno/foo replacement that
| I could use inside a remote ssh server or remote dev containers
| in vs code. This might be it!
| joking wrote:
| maybe it doesn't do everything postman does, but I'm very happy
| using the rest client extension in vs code, the http files with
| the api calls are commited to the source code repository along
| with the code is easy to use, does what i need, and is easy to
| share with my colleagues.
| hk1337 wrote:
| If you're on macOS, try Paw/RapidAPI https://paw.cloud They may
| be affected by AWS.
| clickety_clack wrote:
| Posting (https://posting.sh/) is a pretty cool alternative I've
| used in the past. There's no reason I can see why I would use a
| SaaS product for this.
| CaptainOfCoit wrote:
| I remember when one of the "Core Goals" of Postman was "Complete
| control over your data - Keep simple JSON based data formats
| which can be exported and shared as per user needs".
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpos...
| daytonix wrote:
| Yeah I was pretty damn mad when I opened postman and it was
| completely unusable. Can safely say I'm done with it now.
| xp84 wrote:
| RubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great
| HTTP client (Tools -> HTTP Client) that I've used when I need
| this sort of functionality. I've been off of Postman for quite
| some time, since it got so complicated, and all I wanted was
| something to help me make simple web requests. (No disrespect
| intended to those who like Postman, it's just too overwhelming
| for my needs.)
| selcuka wrote:
| > RubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great
| HTTP client
|
| It's great. You can even paste a curl command into it and it
| will automatically convert and format it. You can then use the
| Copy button to convert your changes back to curl.
| ReptileMan wrote:
| I am against government regulation, but at times likes this (or
| your sous vide and washing machine requiring online accounts to
| function) the idea for regulations that mandate availability of
| local server for client server applications is alluring. And
| making all cloud functionality optional.
| al_borland wrote:
| I moved from Postman to RapidAPI when Postman tried to get me to
| sign up for their cloud service just migrate my data to a new
| laptop.
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