I used to love Postman because it was easy to use, I could create collections and environments, export them to simple files and use those with an NPM package in my pipelines to run automated tests. I used to be 100% sure that if something went wrong, I could load Postman up and there would be all my data - every request, tab and environment preserved like it was gold.
Now, I can’t export anything anywhere - and when I try, Postman tries to upsell me.
Now, when I install an update to Postman the environments I’ve spent days setting up are gone. They’re not in the cloud and I can’t restore them by hacking around in the AppData folder.
Now, if Postman falls over (which is very regularly) I have no idea if what I have saved (and I really, really need to make sure everything is saved!) will still be there.
I don’t want AI to be forced into everything I do - I just want to create useful little API requests.
I don’t want to setup massive teams of automatically created virtual endpoint and servers with AI running everything - I just want to test my endpoints.
Maybe I’m in the minority - but when the tool cannot serve even the basic purpose of storing the information I put into it (and hit the save button) then it is completely useless.
Postman is now completely useless in many regards. All because the company thinks they need to upsell and force AI into every facet of life.
No, I don’t know what I would do better in their place, but I know I would try to keep basic functions and thus customers.
Yes, I’ve found a better tool. Hand crafting one myself would be better, at this point.