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Postman used to be free. Reqit still is.

DEV Community·HALXDOCS·19 days ago
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Postman started as a Chrome extension. One developer, scratching his own itch. No accounts. No pricing tiers. No "upgrade to unlock collections." Just a clean tool that let you hit endpoints and see what came back. That was 2012. Fast forward to now — you open Postman and the first thing it asks for is an account. Then it wants you to sync to the cloud. Then it nudges you toward a team plan. The tool that used to just work now needs to know who you are before it lets you do anything. I get it. Companies need to make money. But somewhere between the Chrome extension and the enterprise sales deck, Postman stopped being for developers and started being for procurement teams. So I built Reqit. What Reqit is: A desktop API client. Local-first. Offline-first. No account required. Zero telemetry. Your collections are plain JSON files sitting on your machine — you can read them, version them, move them, delete them. No vendor lock-in. Built with Go, Wails v2, React, and TypeScript.…

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