What is it?

What is Postman? It's a tool that allows you to configure, save, and replay HTTP requests. It helps developers building backend server APIs, so they don't have to keep fiddling around with their frontend. In many greenfield projects, the frontend doesn't even exist yet and Postman is effectively the only way to easily test what you're working on.

The alternative to postman is writing custom Python/NodeJS/etc programs to send these requests or painfully doing it with curl and bash.

I think it's cool and I'll probably try it the next time I have to work on REST APIs.

Then again I'm mostly looking at APIs to eventually use them in some other python script so perhaps my use case is not the best fit.

Unless the API does something weird you can do a lot worse than using curl and bash. I mean even using telnet (or openssl s_client) is not too bad if you're only doing a simple GET.

The question was what that is.

"What does Foo do?" -- "Well just like what Bar does?" -- <no clue about Bar either>

> What is Postman? It's a tool that allows you to configure, save, and replay HTTP requests.

Ultimately this is a rest client used for troubleshooting, debugging and developing RESTful applications (ie: it's use to connect to websites and APIs.

It honestly looks pretty useful and better than postman so I'll try it out since I work with things that require software like this

You're just not the target. No harm in that.

> But being very clear and concise about what is being offered

It already is, the huge screenshot and the verbiage used ("the open source Postman alternative with type safety") makes it pretty clear what it's about for people who might be interested.

I don't believe everything needs to be understandable by everyone. You don't need to "sell" specialized tooling to people who don't know what it's for.