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 (74)
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.
wow... great idea. will share this with our team for sure.
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 🤘
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".
OpenPost
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.
SpaceCorn ✨🦄
🛸 + 🦄
🤝
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.
This is a good call. I think a distinctive brand will go along way.
"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/
Some comments have been hidden by the post's author - find out more