Demand and supply is playing a big role in the valuations.
One could argue that absent a MnA ecosystem, investors only have a handful of opportunities to multiply their investment. It leads to simple handing-off to next round investors as the one and perhaps only opportunity to get returns on the funds.
Only recently has the ecosystem understood the potential for IPO in India as a potential for exit.
You are right and I am simply putting myself in the shoes of the late stage investors. Perhaps they have been sold a story the drives confidence in a 2X return. When the story doesn’t hold up, there isn’t much of a multiples buffer to prevent losing money.
The reason we end up with user hostile changes, is because the dev user community is cannibalistically stingy. This cycle will continue forever, until people stop dismissing others work as “curl with a UI” or “curl with FTP” and refusing to pay for anything.
Notwithstanding your judgment of others’ ability to use curl - I wouldn’t compare API clients to curl at all.
Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more.
> Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more.
For all engineers
- detailed customization of the request/response - Python scripts
- syntax highlighting - bat
- pretty printing - jq
- automated load and behavior testing - several specialized tools
The comparison to Dropbox is incorrect.
But rather than trying to explain that, I will wait a few years and let the market decide whether my concerns are legitimate.
One could argue that absent a MnA ecosystem, investors only have a handful of opportunities to multiply their investment. It leads to simple handing-off to next round investors as the one and perhaps only opportunity to get returns on the funds.
Only recently has the ecosystem understood the potential for IPO in India as a potential for exit.
it's literally just an http client with a UI, better luck next time
This is the exact toxic dismissive attitude that leads to OSS software going the payment-gated route.
if they wanted to be hostile towards users, then OSS was a mistake
Now, I recommend Bruno to even non-engineers.
Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more.
For all engineers
but a side question, how did you find that comment? is there a listing of historic hn comments somewhere?