So, here’s how happened. Postwoman You know the drill. You’re developing an app for a client and you need to test every APIs and every APIs response in every method, on every requests. Our team was already using Postman to test all the variations of an API, but just to see the request responses in all of them. And that’s how it all started. my 7 year old PC couldn't afford to run another Electron app How about making a tool where you can test your APIs from your browser itself without switching between apps as you work? That would be neat, huh! How it all began The about the idea got 200+ likes and 50+ retweets so people were definitely interested in this kind of tool. initial tweet I literally launched Postwoman on a and wrote about it on Hacker News, HackerNoon, Medium, HashNode, Reddit, Twitter etc. dev.to article > I saw a guy writing JavaScript today. > No frameworks. > No libraries. > No problems. > He just did it. > Writing JavaScript. > Like a Psychopath. I was that guy. I had some problems with CORS in deployment, but I found a quick workaround. I used Vue.js and apparently migrated to Nuxt.js. At that point I started thinking that the tool can actually be published as a standalone web app, and the WebSocket testing feature can just be an addition. So I shifted my goal and starting working towards that. I added few themes, polished up the UI a bit, struggled for 30 mins to come up with a name and..... Postwoman it is. I setup a for people who were interested to contribute. drumroll GitHub repo After I , polished up the UI, and finished bunch of other smaller things, was live 🎉 open sourced the code postwoman.io I actually wrapped up work at 4:30 AM because I just couldn’t go to sleep without finishing 😅 that one thing Features 💚 Open Sourced 🔥 Runs online 🚀 Multi-platform & multi-device support 📱 Progressive Web App 🔌 WebSocket testing 🌈 Customizations ⏰ History 📁 Collections 🌐 Proxy 📜 Pre-Request Scripts & environment variables β 🐳 Docker Full features After the launch, analytics were going crazy! Got , made it to GitHub Trending couple of times, became , got featured in Indie Hackers, Hacker news, Hacker noon, BetaList, YouTube & open source dev podcast etc. 4.5k+ stars on GitHub #2 product of the day on Product Hunt Apart from the project development, there were other goodies happened since v0.1.0: Got 🔥 on first financial backer Open Collective Released β badges Postwoman's icon got featured in simpleicons.org Created Telegram public community Started Discord server made Caneco new banner I was solving my own problem with the hope that I'll also gonna solve other people’s problems. The most important thing about is that in the end, you get a lot of amazing and positive feedback, which is basically the only thing that drives you to do better and more awesome work! 🎉 If you think Postwoman is worthy of existing as a free, fast alternative to Postman, please consider giving us a confidence boost! Star the repo on , , share among your friends, teams and contacts! GitHub Tweet Support PayPal Open Collective Patreon I want to thank everyone for your feedback and support. You can if you’re interested in future updates. follow me on Twitter If you want a heads up on my next projects, or just want to chat about the web, make sure to follow me 💙. If any of my projects helped you please consider to help me pay my server bills and rent. @liyasthomas making a donation on PayPal

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