Postwoman is changing name 🛸

Publish Date: Aug 8 '20

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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

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 🎉

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 75 total

bravemaster619Aug 8, 2020
Can you share the reason why you decided to change the name?
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  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.
  - BinAug 9, 2020
    
    Rather than being an "alternative to Postman", we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.
    
    what about Rittest/Righttest/Rightest
Andreas MøllerAug 8, 2020
HttpWoman
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  Haha. Nice try.
Mohamed FaridAug 8, 2020
XUnicorn,
Sirius (brightest star in the sky),
Orion - Aligns with the Pyramids of Giza (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correl...)
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  - Ben HalpernAug 8, 2020
    I like XUnicorn. It's kind of metal 🤘
DragodzsAug 8, 2020
SpaceCorn ✨🦄
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  🛸 + 🦄
  🤝
VicoAug 8, 2020
Restponse
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  good. will consider this too.
Dennis O'KeeffeAug 8, 2020
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!
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  let me find a dictionary first. btw, thanks for the detailed info.
Fayaz AhmedAug 8, 2020
getrest.io
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  🤝 let me "get rest".
Alex ChiuAug 8, 2020
PostLady?
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  nhaaa. 🚧
Thomas GhyselsAug 8, 2020
Insomnio
- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  thanks. but no thanks.
Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
wow... great idea. will share this with our team for sure.
Enmanuel de la NuezAug 8, 2020
I really like Charlotte!!
АнонимAug 8, 2020
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- Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
  I laughed for like 5 mins. My dad haven't stopped laughing yet. 🤣🤣
Ben HalpernAug 8, 2020
This is a good call. I think a distinctive brand will go along way.
Ben HalpernAug 8, 2020
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 HalpernAug 8, 2020
  "hopp" is also a similar in shape to "http".
  - Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
    that's what I'm talking 🔥🔥
    - Ben HalpernAug 8, 2020
      If you go with this loop me in, I’d love to help work out the imagery. It’s a fun visual.
      - Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
        Deal. I demand something as dope as benhalpern.com 🤠😻
        
        Ben HalpernAug 8, 2020
  - Vitor AmaralAug 8, 2020
    "hopp" or something that's triggers similarities to http is the way to go.
Liyas ThomasAug 8, 2020
Wow. I'm astonished by how you came up with this much names. Great 🔥🔥. Respect.
khaleel gibranAug 8, 2020
I'm loving this discussion, so many lovely names, and I can't stop laughing. 😂
Dennis PloegerAug 8, 2020
Guys, I'm seriously troubled that nobody brought up the obvious Testy McTestface yet!
Michiel HendriksAug 8, 2020
I've got a really bad one: Icle

Explaining that name will be difficult in a serious context.
- Lucas G. TerracinoAug 8, 2020
  I love this one
Kushagra 🎈Aug 8, 2020
Rest in peace

Hehe
dlordiAug 8, 2020
I suggest trest, which merges test and rest
Arbaaz DossaniAug 9, 2020
How about 'WebTrial' ?
Peyman EskandariAug 9, 2020
Galadriel: Lady of Light
leobAug 9, 2020
PosterChild ? :-)

The "love child" of Postman and Postwoman ;-)
RafiAug 9, 2020
How about api.dev or api-request.dev (I think that domain is available)
Venkatesh KLAug 9, 2020
How about R(t)ester/Trester
David VelascoAug 9, 2020
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!
cem kaan kosaliAug 9, 2020
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.
Fernando B 🚀Aug 9, 2020
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/
- Liyas ThomasAug 9, 2020
  I never knew about spectrumscm.com lit ✨
  - Fernando B 🚀Aug 9, 2020
    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.
David Quintero 📿Aug 9, 2020
Shelob
Vitor AmaralAug 9, 2020
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!
- Liyas ThomasAug 10, 2020
  🔥
SduAug 11, 2020
I saw kanye.rest in the comments. I root for kanye.rest
Mohammed IjasAug 11, 2020
Catch.Rest or just catch
Andy CarmonaAug 13, 2020
Httpster like HTTP and tester, sounds like hipster... ✋
Kevin NelAug 14, 2020
"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/
still-dreaming-1Aug 15, 2020
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...
Shravan Kumar BAug 17, 2020
FORK- Free & Open RESTful Klient
Lorraine LeeAug 17, 2020
Moot Spawn
still-dreaming-1Aug 22, 2020
- Wakeful
- Napper
Tom HanksAug 25, 2020
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
- Liyas ThomasAug 25, 2020
  Thanks.
  We've high expectations on this move. Stay tuned for more features and awesomeness.
AnasAug 31, 2020
Why don't you make the old domain redirect to the new one?
- Liyas ThomasAug 31, 2020
  We won't be using term "Postwoman" in our project. Have shown announcement for 1 month as a notice period.
Miloslav 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 VoloskovSep 20, 2020
Beeline is a huge Russian cell operator known for its unethical practices, you don’t want to be associated with it
Nour E-Din El-NhassFeb 7, 2024

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