A report by Gartner suggests that by 2017, close to 268 billion downloads of mobile apps are likely to generate a cumulative revenue of $77 billion. Some of the products that are similar to Postman are Runscope, Paw, StopLight, RESTClient, SmartBear, and RAML. When people began sharing the Postman Collections, that’s where collaboration, syncing and other features came in. Now with Postman Collections, developers can construct better. Initially, Postman just helped with testing of the APIs. The funding helped the team in building a stronger collaboration platform. Last year October end, Postman bagged a funding of $1 million from Nexus Venture Partners.
This was worked along a per month subscription basis.
They saw that collaboration was an issue, and realised that they had to build a new type of collaboration platform. Started with jetpacks and in-app purchases, the team started working on a model. Soon the website was built and the minute they hit 500,000 users, they put out notifications. So I started building a new version of the app for them.” At that time, there were a few 100,000 active users. Speaking of the Google experience, Abhinav says, “I had a call with one of the engineers in the Bay Area and I was surprised to hear that the developers there were using Postman for 20 percent of their development time. The duo saw that the organic growth of the app simply kept increasing and compounding. Soon the new version of Postman went out as a featured app in the Chrome Webstore. They were using the Postman app and were building a packaged app platform. It was during this time Google Chrome Developers approached him. The initial plan was to sustain themselves and never stop work on the product. We thought of improving the product with this idea in mind,” says Abhinav.In the initial years, when Abhinav built Postman the money would come in as sponsors with $200 per month, it was bootstrapping in a different way. We validated that there was a communication problem among developers in doing all of these things. And they would face problems along the whole process of development to testing to monitoring. “We realised that while people were coming to Postman and doing these activities, their workflow wasn’t smooth. A chunk would test the API, another set would be backend developers and others frontend developers. Through this entire process, the team found that there are different activities that developers do. They began looking at the space more closely and figured that people need flow an API workflow from the point of conceptualisation to publication of documentation and spreading the word of the API.
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