Day 55 of 100 · DevTools

Postman

It was a free side project given away to fellow developers. It became a $5.6bn company.

Started atBengaluru engineers / side project
Founded2014
FoundersAbhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti & Abhijit Kane
CountryIndia

How it started

Abhinav Asthana built a small tool to test APIs and released it for free. Millions of developers adopted it.

The lesson for your campus Give the first version away. Charge the teams, not the students.

Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub

Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

See how to start one on your campus →

Ask the Founder

Pick a question — or write your own — and get a grounded answer about how Postman was actually built.

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The next one comes from your campus

Innovation should not be an annual event. It should be a permanent room where students are allowed to build. Bring an Innovation-Hub to your institution.

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