Currently, the headquarters of Postman is in San Francisco, California. The idea behind this collaboration platform was to offer and design API development.
The firm’s vision was to simplify the API building with better-streamlined collaboration to have faster APIs and value honest communications with its users.
How was Postman brought into existence?
The three founders worked at Yahoo, where they came across APIs when working on front-end architecture for an application. The trio found it very hard to keep up with better communication while testing API.
API is a software interface offering other software its piece of service. They further penned down codes and posted them on the chrome web store, which brought major changes in their professional careers.
The proposition to simplify the API update track soon became a mature API toolchain business having clients from PayPal, Microsoft, Netflix, Cisco, and Sony.
The concept of this Postman API tool is similar to that of a traditional postman who delivers letters by picking them in bulk from the post box. Instead of sending letters, the tool sends requests from a client to a server via the network.
The tool can be download from its official site. In case of temporary use, the Postman Chrome extension can be used from the chrome browser.
What makes Postman eccentric?
Postman tool has a great feature to create single JavaScript tests to validate responses from separate APIs. code snippets are provided with response code and time validation instances for new test scriptwriters. Pre-request scripts are supported by Postman that runs before sending actual requests.
Awards and Achievements
- One of the biggest achievements of this tool is that more than 5 00,000 global companies use the Postman API platform.
- The company recently closed a $ 225 million Series D investment led by their investing Nexus partners and CRV and newbies such as Coatue, BOND, and Battery Ventures.
- In 2019, the company was recognized as India’s most valued SaaS startup post the funding.
- The startup is now valued at $5.6 Billion.
The customer’s fundamental needs are the priority. Precise pricing alignment with roadmap features of the existing operations is one of the recently made upgrades.
The platform is now the top-notch sender and creator of HTTP requests enabling the developers to improvise developer productivity and programming interface for applications.
