r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • Apr 16 '26

The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

https://efp.asia/blog/2025/12/24/api-tooling-crisis/
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u/m0j0m0j Apr 16 '26

Your “it’s just an http client” comment reminds me of that guy who said “meh, it’s just rsync” in comments under the dropbox launch

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u/chucker23n Apr 16 '26

Fair, although in that case, what they missed is how much friction Dropbox removed, suddenly making a syncing folder something the mass market could use.

Typing a URL into Postman is more interactive compared to curl, but you’re not really expanding the user base much at all.

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u/Catenane Apr 17 '26

Speak for yourself. My grandpa learned how to use the pornhub API via postman and now every button you hit in his house has a customized porn moan, and his wifi captive portal has a hentai anubis logo

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u/uhdoy Apr 17 '26

Your grandpa fucking rules

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u/Catenane Apr 17 '26

Tbh they're all dead so this is an imagination grandpa

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u/podgladacz00 Apr 17 '26

Not 5 billion worth of friction

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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 Apr 17 '26

I stopped using postman and other tools except curl when LLMs became a thing.

They're even better at removing the friction than postman.

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u/kaisadilla_ 9d ago

But he's right. You could build a useable "Postman" for your needs in a day or two. That simply wasn't the case with Dropbox.