Why Postman Wins
Postman wins by tapping the adjacent users and simplifying software of everyone involved. And simplifying software for everyone is incredibly important.
Hi friends 👋🏻,
Today’s screenshot post is on Postman. It is a great developer tool for testing, building and managing APIs, but just quoting it as a developer tool is an understatement. Expertise to test and read APIs was a thing of past Postman enables non-developers like me to take advantage of its capabilities. Being frequent to Postman and a non-developer, I was always fascinated by the quality of the product and their relentless focus.
One of the bigger trends to emerge in software development over the past 5 years is the ability to outsource common software “plumbing” to third party providers through APIs, like Twilio for SMS and IVR, Stripe and RazorPay for payments and so on. This has created big opportunities for companies like Postman to enable long tail of developers and non-developers to test, read the documentation and discover APIs.
My takeaways from Postman:
Postman a multi-client(web & native) product to power APIfication is building for 'knowledge workers', that is:
collaborative, enabling cross-side network effects
enterprise-ready, crossing the chasm quite early in the journey
aggregator for all public and private APIs. Companies create and share private and public APIs through Postman.
Run in Postman is like the ‘Sign in with Google’
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💨 Screenshot Essay
In closing
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Vishwanath 👋