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Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by apearson on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:10PM (#15536044)
Anyone have any experience with how this compares to Postman?
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by Artemis2 on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:34PM (#15536262)
Paw is worth the money. I have been using it for two years and I really enjoy working with it. The UI/UX is lightyears ahead of everything else I have tried. I haven’t used Paw for Teams but it seems expensive, especially for existing license holders.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by danpalmer on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:12PM (#15536058)
I've found Paw to have much better UX than Postman. Plus it's not an Electron app which is always nice.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by christotty on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:19PM (#15536127)
Maybe I'm lucky, but I've used Postman quite a bit and never ran into an issue caused by it being Electron based. For that matter, my favorite code editor, VS Code, is in that same boat.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by valuearb on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:38PM (#15536285)
I hate non-native apps. VS Code is so good it's forcing me to grudgingly admit that there can be good exceptions.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by sanjeetsuhag on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:39PM (#15536294)
Paw has better UX. Just feels better than Postman. I'll always support native apps over Electron. Electron can do die in a ditch.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by _Codemonkeyism on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:21PM (#15536150)
Postman free is 1000 API calls/month if I see this correctly, above it's $8/month subscription.

I'd rather buy Paw.

Edit: Sorry, see comment. Thanks!

Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by joshstrange on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:38PM (#15536284)
This is slightly misleading, that is only for their monitoring service. You can make (and I do) as many manual requests as you want.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by andyfleming on Monday October 23, 2017 @06:13PM (#15537375)
In short, I'm a big fan of PAW after spending some time with both.

Check out this thread from one of the other times it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190047

Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs by zhs on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:11PM (#15536052)
significantly more buggy in my experience (this was a few months ago though)