I published the app to the Chrome Web Store publicly.

I wasn't really expecting anyone else to use it.

There's a lot of recommendations in there.

So you go to install an application in the Chrome store,

and immediately there's like four other similar apps listed below.

So Insomnia's main competitor is, and still is, Postman,

which has millions of users at this point.

The way it went was people would go to the Chrome store, they would install Postman,

and then below it they would see, oh, there's this app called Insomnia, which is similar.

It's also a Rest Client, an API tool.

Maybe I'll try it out.

My name is Greg Shire, and I am the creator and founder of

Insomnia.

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Grickshire grew up in a small town without a lot of opportunity. He rode BMX bikes and

skateboards and spent a lot of time building ramps and jumps for them both. At that time,

he had no idea what programming entailed. He went to university, and it was at that point that

he learned about programming, after spending some

time in mechanical engineering. He recently moved outside of Montreal into a house with chickens,

and he now finds himself getting into homesteading, gardening, and woodworking, creating many

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