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Postwoman is changing name πŸ›Έ

Liyas Thomas on August 08, 2020

Hey all πŸ‘‹ Postwoman is changing name. Our new identity aligns with our new focus β€” to provide the best open source testing suite in web....
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Robert

kanye.rest

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Liyas Thomas • Edited

I laughed for like 5 mins. My dad haven't stopped laughing yet. 🀣🀣

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Ben Halpern

What about this name:

HoppScotch.

It's an alternate spelling of the game "hopscotch", and in my mind is a subtle nod to CS legend Grace Hopper, and implies "hopping" from one endpoint or web location to another.

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Ben Halpern

"hopp" is also a similar in shape to "http".

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Liyas Thomas

that's what I'm talking πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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Ben Halpern

If you go with this loop me in, I’d love to help work out the imagery. It’s a fun visual.

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Liyas Thomas

Deal. I demand something as dope as benhalpern.com 🀠😻

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Ben Halpern

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Vitor Amaral

"hopp" or something that's triggers similarities to http is the way to go.

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Mohamed Farid

XUnicorn,
Sirius (brightest star in the sky),
Orion - Aligns with the Pyramids of Giza (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correl...)

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Liyas Thomas

awe

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Ben Halpern

I like XUnicorn. It's kind of metal 🀘

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Liyas Thomas

wow... great idea. will share this with our team for sure.

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Dennis Ploeger

Guys, I'm seriously troubled that nobody brought up the obvious Testy McTestface yet!

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Enmanuel de la Nuez

I really like Charlotte!!

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David Quintero πŸ“Ώ

Shelob

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Vico

Restponse

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Liyas Thomas

good. will consider this too.

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Fayaz Ahmed

getrest.io

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Liyas Thomas

🀝 let me "get rest".

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Dennis O'Keeffe • Edited

Rosary Transit β€” a play on Rosa Parks + Montgomery where the bus incident occurred and with transit also having the duality of relating to the nature of testing transport protocols and it’s own definition.

Might be too much of a mouthful but I spent 5 minutes between thinking and typing so I might as well post in case the transport theme helps kick off some creative juices πŸ˜‚

Good luck with the naming!

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Liyas Thomas

let me find a dictionary first. btw, thanks for the detailed info.

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David Velasco • Edited

Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development

My grain of sand to the mountain of inspiration, because I know how hard it can be to name things:

ZeitREST

Etymology:

  • Zeit: noun, feminine - from the German language, it means time, period, sequence.

  • Rest: verb, noun - from the English language, it means relief, absence of motion.

Using REST in uppercase is wordplay, a sort of homophone I guess.

Good luck!

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Tom Hanks

You have made enough base users piggybacking on another app's name anyway ;)
Fighting for gender equality is nothing more than a sad way of self advertising.
Good luck with the new name

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Liyas Thomas • Edited

Thanks.
We've high expectations on this move. Stay tuned for more features and awesomeness.

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Ben Halpern

This is a good call. I think a distinctive brand will go along way.

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Fernando B πŸš€

I appreciate Duffel as an ex-Sailor. Since I had tons of them lol. Whatever you do, don't use Spectrum. That's not totally random. spectrumscm.com/

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Liyas Thomas • Edited

I never knew about spectrumscm.com lit ✨

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Fernando B πŸš€

I'm not proud of knowing it lol. Company I work for uses it for source control. Is a very outdated system based on Java, and it sucks tbh, but most of the engineers using it come from Industrial automation. The thing is that they built tons of tools around the spectrum ecosystem. Sucks because we have internal gitlab and azure devops but barely anyone is using it properly lol.

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bravemaster619

Can you share the reason why you decided to change the name?

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Liyas Thomas
  1. Similarity in name with "Postman" may introduce trademark violations in future.
  2. We don't want to hurt any other project's goodwill.
  3. Rather than being an "alternative to Postman", we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.
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Bin

Rather than being an "alternative to Postman", we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.

what about Rittest/Righttest/Rightest

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Kevin Nel • Edited

"gest"

Gest is best!

P.S. This should also spark a passionate discussion whether it should be pronounced "jest" or "guest" - much like the GIF debate :P

EDIT: Just saw that this already exists... gest.co/

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SJellen

OpenPost

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still-dreaming-1

Nap (or NAP, or nap), a play on REST, and stands for either Named After Postwoman, Next After Postwoman, Not Always Postwoman, Not A Postwoman, Not A Postman, or something else...

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Miloslav πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ¦‹ Voloskov

Beeline is a huge Russian cell operator known for its unethical practices, you don’t want to be associated with it

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Kushagra 🎈

Rest in peace

Hehe

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Andy Carmona

Httpster like HTTP and tester, sounds like hipster... βœ‹

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Shravan Kumar B

FORK- Free & Open RESTful Klient

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Lorraine Lee

Moot Spawn

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Mohammed Ijas

Catch.Rest or just catch

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Sdu

I saw kanye.rest in the comments. I root for kanye.rest

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Alex Chiu

PostLady?

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Liyas Thomas • Edited

nhaaa. 🚧

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Michiel Hendriks

I've got a really bad one: Icle

Explaining that name will be difficult in a serious context.

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Lucas G. Terracino

I love this one

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dlordi

I suggest trest, which merges test and rest

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Rafi • Edited

How about api.dev or api-request.dev (I think that domain is available)

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Peyman Eskandari

Galadriel: Lady of Light

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Dragodzs

SpaceCorn βœ¨πŸ¦„

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Liyas Thomas

πŸ›Έ + πŸ¦„
🀝

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Vitor Amaral

Hey allow me to contribute with some names

  • Hoster
  • Mindex
  • Hostu
  • Comemo
  • Unibo
  • Mockar
  • Lynk
  • Hipop
  • Bount
  • Honect
  • Splity
  • Tunel
  • Pathway
  • Lane

I hope it helps, good luck!

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Liyas Thomas

πŸ”₯

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Andreas MΓΈller

HttpWoman

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Liyas Thomas

Haha. Nice try.

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khaleel gibran

I'm loving this discussion, so many lovely names, and I can't stop laughing. πŸ˜‚

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still-dreaming-1
  • Wakeful
  • Napper
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Arbaaz Dossani

How about 'WebTrial' ?

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Thomas Ghysels

Insomnio

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Liyas Thomas

thanks. but no thanks.

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leob • Edited

PosterChild ? :-)

The "love child" of Postman and Postwoman ;-)

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Venkatesh KL

How about R(t)ester/Trester

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Liyas Thomas

Wow. I'm astonished by how you came up with this much names. Great πŸ”₯πŸ”₯. Respect.

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Anas

Why don't you make the old domain redirect to the new one?

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Liyas Thomas

We won't be using term "Postwoman" in our project. Have shown announcement for 1 month as a notice period.

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cem kaan kosali

Wrong decision. The name was the reason I was using. Insomnia is a good tool but post woman explains it's self. I can understand what does software I will have provides.

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