if you wonder how bloated Postman app is: It calls 18 requests to 18 different servers at launch 🤯 @getpostman can you explain it?
@getpostman I used this app to monitor and block all Postman requests tinyshield.proxyman.com
@_nghiatran @getpostman lowkey need a debloated; actually fast api client with some TUI inspired UI can be native, can be a web app. whatever. just has to be fast....
@_nghiatran @getpostman Not surprised at this point 😆
@_nghiatran @getpostman Most websites make like 100 requests to different servers. Seems pretty minimal imo. Most calls are to their own endpoints.
@_nghiatran @getpostman can you check& analyze claude desktop app? it uses like x20 more traffic than chatGPT, @_nghiatran
@_nghiatran @getpostman VC money goes brrrr
@_nghiatran @getpostman A bunch of those are for observability and feature flags(launchdarkly)
@_nghiatran @getpostman Love @proxyman_app - hope we see TinyShield on @Setapp
@_nghiatran @getpostman postman is so bloated but I still use it. someone please make a lightweight version
@_nghiatran @getpostman Does it roll up all of an app’s processes? Which is nice, but would be good to be able to unbundle the processes, so you can see which ones are by a helper vs main process, and can identify core endpoints vs the ones you’re requesting in app.
@_nghiatran @getpostman At least 7 are APM, app config, error reporting. You’d guess one to load a js bundle another to connect to reporting server. 6 are them (not that shocking). It’s Electron so it’s all just web assets. Neat looking app there tho.
@_nghiatran @getpostman 18 requests except the one you want
@_nghiatran @getpostman That’s a wrong way of promoting your app.
@_nghiatran @getpostman Been using Bruno as an alternative, works pretty good so far
@_nghiatran @getpostman Postman is crazy. Finally gave up on it and moved over to Rapid API.
@_nghiatran @getpostman Not enough, add more
@_nghiatran @getpostman wonder which tool you used to capture the image?
@_nghiatran @getpostman Used to be a nice utility.
@_nghiatran @getpostman Windows: hold my beer (I don’t really know, just assume)
@_nghiatran @getpostman it sucks, they really need a lite version of this app.
It makes senses. When you launch, you need to: 1. check app updates 2. reload the workspace if stale 3. authenticate the user 4. identify the user with the analytics services you need (essential) and send an app-launch event with the app version number (at least) 5. reload the feature flags if stale 6. fetch notifications (maybe billing or workspace invites) This covers most of the servers in the list.
@_nghiatran @getpostman @use_bruno .. it's amazing, open source and the paid version is a one time payment version usebruno.com