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Why we picked it The founder's own account, including the detail that reframes the whole story: Postman was announced in a Stack Overflow thread, not launched, and reached nearly half a million users before major funding.
How we built Postman, the product and the company
From Postman Blog by Abhinav Asthana About 10 min read
- Postman's first public announcement in 2012 was a Stack Overflow post, and Google later featured it on the Chrome store homepage.
- It reached nearly half a million users while still just a Chrome extension.
- A significant share of early users were not developers, which broke the original hypothesis.
- Browser CORS limits forced the move from web to desktop, a constraint that was only reversed with the 2020 web version.
