The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
I’ve been a Postman user for my entire developer career. I remember when it was just a simple Chrome extension that made pentesting APIs slightly less painful. Those were simpler times. Today, I find myself joining the growing exodus of developers abandoning these tools because they sell out. The Great Betrayal: how our favorite tools turned against us There’s a disappointing pattern growing in the API tooling space that reflects what we’ve seen with other developer tools: a promising product gains support and adoption, then corporate pressures force it into enshittification. Postman, once the darling of developers everywhere, has become the poster child for this transformation. The breaking point for many was the removal of the Scratchpad (offline mode). After that, degraded…
