Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by AngeloAnolin on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:35AM
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Good collection, as well as links to the documentation available for each API.
Side note: Why all the bash and hate for Postman here? Why not write an article and express your concern(s) there and submit it here in HN. Or better yet, connect with the team[1] at Postman and throw your ideas on making it better.
Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by kuceram on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:06AM
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Good point!
However this looks as a duplicate to official api network https://www.getpostman.com/api-network/ to me (as mentioned below). On the other hand, I like that you can share your collections, rate them and have a discussion. But what if Postman team decides for the same? :-)
Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by owaislone on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:48AM
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Postman is a monster. It's a pain to use. Classic example of feature overload. Also, they don't have an automatic release channel on Linux. It keeps bugging you to update to latest release and then sends you to page to download a tarball which you have to extract and replace existing install with. Just provide a snap package already.
I was using Insomnia quite happily until it became really resource hungry and CPU started to spike because of it. May be I should give it another try.
Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by owaislone on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:31PM
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AFAIR, you could export and import your environment as JSON. I've shared it with team mates like that. It did not have a team-sync feature back when I used it. It might now. I don't know.
Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by levonterteryan on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:39AM
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The difference is that we allow user contributions that's why our library is a bigger one. We do list those collections that are listed on Postman's official web-site, which are submitted by the API providers themselvves. So that makes our list more complete.
Also we have comments and replies on each API page for users to discuss and help each other in solving technical difficulties.
Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by levonterteryan on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:02AM
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I guess the user upvoting system that we implemented similar to Product Hunt or Hacker News would help to keep the quality of the collections high enough. By the way we have built this web-site without code based on a Product Hunt Clone template from here https://zeroqode.com :)
Re:Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman
by levonterteryan on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:21AM
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By the way, the web-sites of users who contribute their Postman API collections will be visible on the API collection page and will get significant traction :)
Side note: Why all the bash and hate for Postman here? Why not write an article and express your concern(s) there and submit it here in HN. Or better yet, connect with the team[1] at Postman and throw your ideas on making it better.
[1] https://www.getpostman.com/team
However this looks as a duplicate to official api network https://www.getpostman.com/api-network/ to me (as mentioned below). On the other hand, I like that you can share your collections, rate them and have a discussion. But what if Postman team decides for the same? :-)
I was using Insomnia quite happily until it became really resource hungry and CPU started to spike because of it. May be I should give it another try.