alt Hacker NewsThe UI looks a bit outdated, it gives me vibes of some old software from 2000s somehow (probably because of the Java). And it would be really helpful to clearly state benefits of using Milkman instead of Postman right on the home page (e.g. performance benchmarks, UX, extendability, etc.). I see that it has some users and 1.3k stars so there're definitely some cool things in Milkman, probably you could just present them better
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It looks like a windows app running on macOS.
At this point, "outdated" is a compliment, it means that it has a menu with standard shortcuts, discoverability, accessibility. It means that it won't take 800MB of RAM to provide minimal functionality. It will stay the same across the years and not be subject of experimentation by UI designers thinking that they know better. Postman's UI started so-so and just went worse from there. SoapUI before it offered similar functionality using Swing. It's always the same app, you can rewrite it but there's no reinventing it.
Both the application UI and website are giving open source option from 2008