Postwoman is changing name 🛸

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.

Liyas Thomas • Aug 8 '20

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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Update: 16th August 2020

Postwoman is now Hoppscotch 🎉

GitHub → Web app →

Special thanks to @ben (co-founder DEV.to) for suggesting this name 👏.

Ben Halpern • Aug 8 '20

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.

Ben Halpern • Aug 8 '20

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

Comments

[Robert]

kanye.rest

[Liyas Thomas]

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

[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.

[Ben Halpern]

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

[Liyas Thomas]

that's what I'm talking 🔥🔥

[Ben Halpern]

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

[Liyas Thomas]

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

[Ben Halpern]

[Vitor Amaral]

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

[Liyas Thomas]

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

[Mohamed Farid]

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

[Liyas Thomas]

[Ben Halpern]

I like XUnicorn. It's kind of metal 🤘

[Dennis Ploeger]

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

[Enmanuel de la Nuez]

I really like Charlotte!!

[David Quintero 📿]

Shelob

[Vico]

Restponse

[Liyas Thomas]

good. will consider this too.

[Fayaz Ahmed]

getrest.io

[Liyas Thomas]

🤝 let me "get rest".

[David Velasco]

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!