What happens when an HTTP client raises $225M at a $5.6B valuation

Postman inhabits this weird niche where it was tons of value when it was free, and now it&#x27;s wildly not worth the price. The only thing keeping us on Postman was inertia, which this year&#x27;s invoice has finally sprung us out of, and we&#x27;re switching to Bruno.<p>I worry that Bruno will go the same way, as that&#x27;s also what Insomnia did.

A $5.6B valuation means that Postman is about as valuable as Reddit ($6.4B). There might be an alternative simulated universe in which this makes sense, but it is not ours. Unfortunately, the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, so I won&#x27;t short Postman if it will be listed sometime in the future, but damn, I would really like to do so.

I saw this announcement in my email yesterday and thought to myself &quot;I didn&#x27;t know T-Pain was an API fan&quot;

My postman is Jupyter with the &#x27;requests&#x27; module loaded.

For an http client that hasn’t be shittified to hell usebruno.com

At this point, this is worse than parody.

This is beautiful.<p>I had so much fun at Twilio signal the year that Tony hawk was there and OK GO played … Great open bar and fantastic catering.<p>I have no idea what postman is or what people use it for but what’s the point of living in the bay area in 2024 if you’re not taking advantage of this excess?<p>Will try to attend in May ...

To save you the click to Twitter, the post links to an announcement about Postman&#x27;s &quot;POST&#x2F;CON 2024&quot; conference:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postman.com&#x2F;postcon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postman.com&#x2F;postcon&#x2F;</a><p><i>&quot;Celebrate at our after-party with a performance by six-time Grammy winner and multi-platinum recording artist T-Pain. Conference-goers will stroll to the historic August Hall to enjoy evening drinks, our own bowling alley, and an unforgettable live show.&quot;</i><p>And Postman describes themselves as:<p><i>&quot;Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.&quot;</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postman.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postman.com</a><p>So, I don&#x27;t know. Enterprise sales gonna enterprise sell? It&#x27;s part of the game...

We have multiple licenses for Postman at work. I saw this email and laughed. Doe they really need a con for postman?<p>I do like the client though. It makes it real easy to share REST api endpoints between teams.

Switched two years ago from Postman to Insomnia. Now Insomnia is also adding lots of logins and paid stuff and I am switching to Bruno. So far it seems great!

I use httpie from cli. It’s a much faster experience to call endpoints from a bash scripts.<p>Never got the postman hype.

I&#x27;m in HTTPain

&gt; Connect with fellow API practitioners and global tech leaders<p>ahahahah<p>on the plus side, we should be grateful they&#x27;re safely incinerating so much money from VCs - far far far worse companies could have got it and done far worse things than buying T-Pain a new Bentley.

No wonder... 14$ month Basic, 29$ month Professional. 49$ (+49$)(+49$) month for Enterprise...<p>I&#x27;m poor and stingy so that sounds a lot. Specially when these sort of tools start to add up...

You’ll never go poor overestimating developer laziness.

That valuation was in 2021. Wonder what it is now.

I&#x27;m not sure why you&#x27;re all complaining. API is literally in T-Pain (3&#x2F;5). I couldn&#x27;t think of a better act.

What does postman even do?

A company pays an artist for a party? I don’t understand, what is awful?