I am sorry, but design is a feature as well and you have that strongly against you. I don't see myself happily using your app over something like Insomnia or Paw.
For one, I don't like that it is in the browser. I don't like the buttons on the left that are icons with no text or tooltip, I have no idea what they do. I don't like that I have to type the request verb (GET, POST, etc). The tool should help me with suggestions as they are finite. It is a shame I have to also type in the HTTP/1.1 section, again suggestions would work better. Can I create multiple requests and switch between them quickly? I usually switch through a few. There is no feedback when I press the play button, I have no idea if that is what makes requests, there is no tooltip.
Also, you say that you have all of paw's features. How do I do dynamic values in the url? How do I make and manage oAuth requests?
Update:
I can't make any requests it seems. That would seem an important feature.
We will capture this feedback so that we can get back to it. It is very helpful. Thanks.
In terms of the verb and the version, you can either select them from the dropdown, type or use dynamic values. The URL and all other input fields, certainly support dynamic values, which can be selected from the dropdown or autocompleted by typing the value text. We have wider support for transforms which can be nested like Paw and we do have variables, which can also be nested. You can build very complex dynamic expressions (http://bit.ly/2gz3OXO). These two features alone superset Paw on the same feature set.
We don't have builtin OAuth support but we are working on it. We don't have collections but you can save in projects (so files and folders).
The tool works in the browser by leveraging a minimal browser extension. There is currently work in progress to build it on top of Electron as a desktop app but it can be done in WebKit as well on Mac. We have not decided yet.
I genuinely believe this tool will improve your workflow once we add OAuth support and collections hence why I mentioned it here. And we do have a favourable licensing model which allows you to use the tool free of charge. This tool also works really well with all our other tools which allow you to fuzz, run security scans, and perform request inspection inside your browser without the need to install a proxy. You can even monitor iPhone HTTP traffic without too much fiddling (http://bit.ly/2h5nwex) and all of these features will be part of the desktop app.
You are not :) We just suck at explaining our tech very well and it takes a while to realise the value here because even I have not seen any other product offering packaged in the way we do it today - so it could be confusing initially. This is why I am starting threads like this.
The browser extension depends on the browser technology as the extension ecosystem is different for each vendor. Currently, we support Chrome and Firefox but due to Web Extensions API adoption, we will be supporting out of the box all 3 major browsers: Chrome, Firefox and IE Edge (no Safari I am afraid).
That being said, the packaged app will provide a standalone version as well which means that there is an easy transition between desktop and web users and all major platforms will be supported.
Genuine question, but why not fix your own website to tell your product’s story rather than pepper the web with small pockets of useful info about your product leaving visitors to the real deal confused?
This is a good question. Of course, we are working on it and we are also building a very complex product at the same time. So while the main site is nowhere near what we want it to be it does not mean that we cannot publicly share what we are currently doing. And yes it would have been a lot more useful if I had shown you an amazing landing page but unfortunately it is not ready yet.
I hope that some of you may see a potential and although may disagree with the styles and color schemes keep faith in us and come back to check it out later when we have landed the themes, the desktop version and the new extension.
It is still useful application and all discussed changes are in the pipeline.
