Growing Popularityīuilding APIs is a team effort and calls for seamless workflows between developers. That is when Asthana quit TeliportMe to start Postman as a full-time venture. In a short time, the number of users grew to 500,000. The Chrome store’s homepage also featured it, giving it more visibility. Some of his co-workers began using it too, and soon, Google reached out to the team appreciating the tool. Interestingly, Postman started as a side-project with Asthana, writing the early version as a basic HTTP client for Chrome. The tool for API management was still very basic, and there was no commercially available solution then. This company was building a complex API for sharing information throughout the development process. The tooling at that time was very primitive, which did not help optimise the team’s workflow.Īsthana encountered a similar problem when he started his first startup TeliportMe.
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Any update in the API meant that the whole work had to be done from scratch. Asthana says that it was extremely challenging to learn how APIs worked and also very difficult for the development team to test and debug them. Along with future co-founder Ankit Sobit, he worked on APIs to convert them into a shareable format for developers to use in their projects. In an interview, Asthana said that creating a platform like Postman was rooted in his experience as an intern developer at Yahoo in 2012.
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