Developers report mass migration away from Postman to alternatives
1 Nov 3 12:22 PM · 4d ago · 2 articles · 1 post · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 1 of 3
Comments across Hacker News document widespread developer abandonment of Postman over privacy concerns, feature bloat, login requirements, and AI additions. Multiple commenters mention switching to Bruno, Kreya, Yaak, RESTer, and curl; one healthcare workplace reports Postman was decertified by their cyber team and users switched overnight.
“Working in healthcare, and Postman got decertified by our Cyber team for this. We all switched to Bruno overnight.”
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It's a shame what happened to Postman. It started as an excellent little developer tool for testing APIs. Then for some reason they raised over $400M in funding and hired 1,500+ employees, for what should have been a tiny OSS/passion project like curl or little snitch. Instead they now have to justify their valuation by forcing logins, collecting…
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We went to bruno years ago and has been good. Nice to be able to store the request definitions in git. But to be honest, don't really need any of these tools anymore.
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