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by weinzierl 988 days ago
Do you mean HTTPie also raised venture capital or just in general? If it is HTTPie, would you have a source?

Not doubting. I'm compiling a table with Postman alternatives, VC-backed is on column and I like to add sources where possible.
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JimDabell 988 days ago
> We’ve raised a $6.5M Seed Round from Coatue, Blossom Capital, the founders of Intercom, Checkout.com, Monzo, etc.

— https://httpie.io/about

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laurent123456 988 days ago
> $6.5M

I'm probably missing something, but it seems insane they need so much money to make (yet another) API testing client.

And I'm guessing it means the company is valued at x billion dollars

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da39a3ee 988 days ago
They're not "making an API testing client". They're trying to start something called a "business". People do this to try to get enough of this thing called "money", to pay for the costs in their lives and their family's lives.

If they are based in America, they would be calculating at least, say $200k per year per employee, since they need to pay healthcare etc. So multiply that by the number of employees you want in your business, then add all the other costs, and extend over the period you want the funding to cover.

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laurent123456 988 days ago
Nice, thanks for sharing your wisdom. And still insane they need that much money, we all have examples here of businesses that succeeded without having to raise millions of dollars
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da39a3ee 988 days ago
Ok, but I guess httpie are raising money in an environment where investors are wanting to invest a lot of money, and they thought "why not, it will raise lots of exciting possibilities for the business". So I'm still not getting why there's so much criticism from people in this thread. You'd probably have done the same in their situation.
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master-lincoln 988 days ago
Yeah, but normally taking money from investors means they want growth and a return on their investment which often skews business decisions to get quick money at some point. This often leads to an enshittified product. It seems unrealistic to make millions of dollars in short time in return for a simple product that already exists in many variants even for free. So people believe the product will suffer which makes the users suffer.
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