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Comment by smlacy | Hacker News Reader

No its not. :)

Blog has no product description, and even the product description on getpostman.com (below the fold) is amazingly vague:

"A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing."

So... It's a text editor? A test framework? What languages does it work with? Web APIs or native? Why would I use it over my existing toolchain?

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In the time it took you to write this post, you could have googled it like thirty times. What's your point?

It's just a gui version of curl with helpful things like an editor for post bodies, persistence of old requests, stuff like that.

Point is that if they're selling a product, they could make it more clear what the thing they're selling is. I'm EXACTLY the target market, and they failed to entice me.

You're not the target market if you couldn't figure out what they are. I've never heard of it but one look at the screenshot told me exactly what it is.

That's not a reason to have a poorly explained product or service, it's only a justification for not caring enough about clarity.

But for developers, who see hundreds of libraries and services being posted every day, it matters if there is a clear explanation at the top or not.

The target market are developers who are in need of a very specific solution that postman provides. How do you think most postman users end up at the site? They probably search for some very specific keywords on google, asked some very specific question on stackoverflow, or got referred to it by reading some very specific article on reddit/hn/etc. They aren't people with 2 second attention spans who can't be bothered to read beyond the tag line.

smlacy's response felt pretty much like trolling to me.

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