While Greg was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn’t have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem.
This is the creation story of Insomnia.
https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-greg-schier-insomnia-client/