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This seems really cool, but I'm curious about the ethics of creating a tool that seems to replace Postman's paid offerings while leveraging all the free features of Postman.

I'm new to software development though, and I don't have an exact understanding of how open and sharing things are, and while I do understand we are all standing on the shoulders if giants, I wonder how far that goes.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding though, but this seems to be solving a lot of the collaboration issues that exist on the free tier, that they sell for Enterprise postman.

But once again, I'm new to the culture.




Hi! Interesting point. At Apideck we're a happy (paying) Postman customer. We're not aware of any collaboration limits on the free tier. We created Portman with the intention to scratch our own itch by using OpenAPI as the canonical format to drive our API lifecycle and test automation.


Out of curiosity: are you also using is as a spec format? I.e. define the OpenAPI first, and then implement it (either manually or automatically) - as opposed as constructing it out of an exiting implementation.




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