Postman is so incredibly bloated and slow these days. All I want is a REST client, but it feels like every time I want to perform a basic task now, I have to dig past all of their confusing platform and cloud stuff that I have no interest in.
It's golang + gtk so it uses 30MB of ram. I've made a website https://probster.com with some screenshots. I plan on making a barebones version available for download soon for all platforms, just gotta get around to it because I don't have a lot of experience with delivering desktop apps.
love the idea! i'd be willing to contribute but i'm sort of useless when it comes to go... i do have a suggestion though! lots of open source projects also use open collective [1] to crowd source funds, so if you want to add another payment method for users like me that don't have patreon that might be something to look into.
Thank you, if you want to help me out let me know :). I'll look into it, it's more along the lines of patreon/similar being a way to gauge interest and not a way to live off developing it right now.
If you would like an alternative that is still GUI, I personally switched from Postman to Insomnia (https://insomnia.rest/) in the last year and haven't looked back. It has been acquired recently, but it's still open source and very lean. Definitely recommend, you can even directly import your Postman collections if you used them.
To make things even worse I also recently (v. 9.11.0) found Postman process hanging on in my memory after I close it. This behavior isn't bad on its own, the problem is that after few days (of not using the app at all) it ended up eating 10% of my CPU time.
Since killing the process manually after using the app isn't the experience I want to have when dealing with simple tool I ended up testing some alternatives.
