# New to Postman — Looking for a Friendly Starting Point

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/new-to-postman-looking-for-a-friendly-starting-point/83784>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Tags:** newman-project, tests\
**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/new-to-postman-looking-for-a-friendly-starting-point/83784 "2025-08-20T14:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![leina89](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/leina89/32/33303_2.png) [@leina89](https://community.postman.com/u/leina89)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/new-to-postman-looking-for-a-friendly-starting-point/83784/1 "2025-08-20T14:00:20Z")

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Hey everyone,

Just joined the Postman Community and wanted to say hi. I’ve been working with APIs for a while now mostly REST, some GraphQL and Postman has been my go to tool for testing, mocking, and debugging. But I realized I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do, especially with Workspaces, Collections, and the newer AI features.

Honestly, I’m not sure where to start here. There’s a ton of great content tutorials, challenges, discussions and I’d love to find a good entry point to connect with others, share use cases, and maybe even contribute something useful.

If there’s a thread or subforum where newcomers typically introduce themselves or ask early questions, I’d appreciate a nudge. Also curious how folks are using Postman in production especially around automation, testing pipelines, and edge integrations.

Glad to be here and looking forward to learning from this awesome community.

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**Author:** ![gbadebo-bello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/gbadebo-bello/32/12175_2.png) [@gbadebo-bello](https://community.postman.com/u/gbadebo-bello)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/new-to-postman-looking-for-a-friendly-starting-point/83784/2 "2025-08-22T17:55:29Z")

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Hi @leina89 👋. Welcome to the Postman Community :postman:.

A great place to connect with other people is here on our Discourse community or on [Discord](https://discord.gg/BJEAmFT34B) where we chat more asynchronously. Both places are great places to ask questions, connect with other Postman users, and share any interesting things you are working on. Say hi in # introductions on Discord, leave a random question on #general-chat or any other relevant channel

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Two really good resources I will recommend for learning are:

- [Postman Docs](https://learning.postman.com/docs/introduction/overview/): This is the complete documentation for Postman. If there’s anything you are looking to learn, it is probably a search away on Postman Docs.
- [Postman Academy](https://academy.postman.com/): We have structured courses, with certifications for different experience level on the Academy. You should check it out.

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As regards how Postman is used in production for automation and testing. There is no one-size-fits-all answer here. Some general advice will be:

- Use [environments](https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/variables/managing-environments/) to separate testing in production from testing across other environments(e.g, staging, development, etc.)
- Use post-response [scripts](https://learning.postman.com/docs/tests-and-scripts/write-scripts/intro-to-scripts/) to author test cases and assertions for your API. Once you have a test suite, you can use the [collection runner](https://learning.postman.com/docs/tests-and-scripts/run-tests/run-tests/) to manually test your collections at will or on a schedule.
- The [Postman CLI](https://learning.postman.com/docs/tests-and-scripts/run-tests/run-tests-with-ci-cd/) lets you run your test suite on the command line. This means you can use this to gain confidence in your API deployments by integrating it with your CI/CD pipelines. Since it’s a command-line tool, it should work with a CI/CD tool(GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Jenkins). You can use the collection runner to generate configuration files(in YAML or JSON) for any OS or tool of your choice.

I hope this helps, and feel free to let me know if you have further questions.

Cheers!