Hey all 👋
Postwoman is changing name.
Our new identity aligns with our new focus — to provide the best open source testing suite in web.
Towards that goal, we are thrilled to announce that v2 will have a new name and domain.
- Similarity in name with "Postman" may introduce trademark violations in future.
- We don't want to hurt any other project's goodwill.
- Rather than being an "alternative to Postman", we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.
Update: 16th August 2020
Postwoman is now Hoppscotch 🎉
Special thanks to @ben (co-founder DEV.to) for suggesting this name 👏.
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.
"hopp" is also a similar in shape to "http".
Top comments (67)
kanye.rest
I laughed for like 5 mins. My dad haven't stopped laughing yet. 🤣🤣
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.
"hopp" is also a similar in shape to "http".
that's what I'm talking 🔥🔥
If you go with this loop me in, I’d love to help work out the imagery. It’s a fun visual.
Deal. I demand something as dope as benhalpern.com 🤠😻
"hopp" or something that's triggers similarities to http is the way to go.
XUnicorn,
Sirius (brightest star in the sky),
Orion - Aligns with the Pyramids of Giza (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correl...)
I like XUnicorn. It's kind of metal 🤘
wow... great idea. will share this with our team for sure.
Guys, I'm seriously troubled that nobody brought up the obvious Testy McTestface yet!
I really like Charlotte!!
Shelob
Restponse
good. will consider this too.
getrest.io
🤝 let me "get rest".
Rosary Transit — 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 😂
Good luck with the naming!
let me find a dictionary first. btw, thanks for the detailed info.
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!
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
Thanks.
We've high expectations on this move. Stay tuned for more features and awesomeness.
This is a good call. I think a distinctive brand will go along way.
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/
I never knew about spectrumscm.com lit ✨
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.
Can you share the reason why you decided to change the name?
what about Rittest/Righttest/Rightest
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