🧠 $100 Challenge – “Wish I’d Found This Sooner” Edition | 24 Hours Only

Hey @ileolami, @technical-explorer-8, @spacecraft-astrono14 :waving_hand:

I’d love you see what you all think about this one?

You’ve all posted awesome submissions on past challenges :folded_hands:

I recently discovered a few useful features in Postman. The first is the ability to include data types for parameters and schemas. In the past, whenever I tested an API in Postman and wanted to import it later, I had to manually add all the data types to my OpenAPI file.

That process was always stressful, but now that Postman includes data types automatically, exporting a collection is much easier. I can simply add the exported details without going through that hassle again.


Another feature I found is the Postman extension for VS Code.

I am genuinely happy about this because instead of switching back and forth between Postman and VS Code to run tests, I can run everything directly from the extension. It saves time and makes my workflow smoother.

I really appreciate Postman for making these improvements.

That’s a wrap for this week’s challenge, thanks to everyone who shared their “wish I’d found this sooner” discoveries!
We’re reviewing entries now and will announce the winner tomorrow.

If you want to keep the conversation going (or see what others uncovered), join us in Discord → #weekly-challenge there’s a great mix of hidden gems being shared over there right now.

See you tomorrow for the results :eyes:

Submitted

and I hope to win this time

How am I supposed to share, my work inorder to get the challenge price.

Hey @spacecraft-astrono14 :waving_hand:

You would just respond in the challenge thread, as you have done in the previous challenges.

Unfortunately, for this 24hour challenge the submission are closed but we will back again next Wednesday with other one where you have the chance to will the prize :trophy:

I just discovered something in Postman that genuinely made me pause and ask, “How long has this been here??” :sob:

You can actually tell Postbot to do almost anything for you directly from your request and response — and I completely missed it until now.

For example, I found out you can:

  • Auto-generate tests just by right-clicking the response (or using Ctrl + Alt + P [another shortcut added to my list]) → Generate Tests or Prompt as you want

  • Create visualisations

  • And basically let Postbot build all the boilerplate you normally write by hand

All from a single right-click on the response body.

I’ve been doing all of this manually like a caveman :sob:
Didn’t know Postman could turn my response into tests, visuals, and scripts in seconds.

Such a simple but crazy powerful feature — and I wish I found it sooner.

Challenge Winner: Congrats to @lunar-module-geolog1!

We had a lot of amazing submissions this week. Ctrl+Alt+C is an incredible feature in Postman. You can paste curl commands to generate request parameters, but being able to go from request to parameter in just one click is extremely powerful. This took the win this week.

Hop over to Discord (#weekly-challenge) to see the reactions and join the live chat.

link: https://bit.ly/3XITIYN