So it's basically a Tab?
Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal
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Thanks! We do need to put in place a proper privacy policy. But we wanted to be transparent with how Fig uses your data (hence what we have currently). You can run `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true` to disable all telemetry except for one daily ping. You also make a good point: in our onboarding we should move our privacy information to before granting accessibility! We will make this more clear
Please make telemetry opt in, not opt out. And please honor the disableTelemetry setting by disabling the ping.
...DNT header, but for the OS
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#313Will there ever be advertisement in the autocomplete results?
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#314Nice website, but I wouldn't switch to this from Fish/Zsh on account of: 1. Cannot identify any killer features above what I already have with forever free tools with much larger support communities. 2. Less trust in you as a YC startup. What if you fail? What if you sell out? 3. Requirement of email. 4. Telemetry and privacy concerns raised by others. 5. Not available for Linux, and I get the feeling that Linux woul…
> 1. Cannot identify any killer features above what I already have with forever free tools with much larger support communities. It does have the features I want, although not enough to convince me to switch right now. cli can be painful if you are working on commands you are not familiar with. IMHO, this is a better interface than the ones in Fish/Zsh, that provides richer information regarding command choices, henc…
The aws-cli is a monster! This exactly the type of situation where we envision Fig being really helpful :)
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You can stop at #1. Why do I need this when oh-my-zsh exists?
As soon as I saw the title I anticipated the Dropbox conversation! I’m guessing people like me who use the shell as a means to an end. Honestly most of the time I’m using git bash “coz it’s there” and hate typing in commands. I actively avoid it. I installed LENS for kubernetes to avoid it. I’d rather write a script in an IDE and run that than be working at the command line. Because then I can treat it like code, rev…
Out of curiosity, do the scripts you write take options or arguments? Or are they generally just invoked directly?
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> 2. Less trust in you as a YC startup. What if you fail? What if you sell out? > 3. Requirement of email. > 4. Telemetry and privacy concerns raised by others. Dovetailing on these... Like why is a CLI tool VC backed? Is the business model just selling our data? Is the VC backing for another product and the CLI tool is just a PR thing?
Just adding, from their website: > Investors: We've raised several million dollars from amazing VCs like General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins, and angels like Jason Warner, Adam Gross, Olivier Pomel, Scott Belsky, Will Gaybrick and a handful of other impressive dev tool founders and executives. The fact that a CLI tool raised millions of dollars while also being basically powered by open-source contributions is also…
I mean they’re trying to be JetBrains but for Bash so it makes total sense to me why it would be a many many millions of dollars effort.
I think people forget that IDEs (which is essentially what this is) are a stupid amount of work. Then you have to add the rest of the business: sales, leadership, support, hr, ops. I mean a 25 person company $200k average total comp is 5mil annual burned cash just on salary.
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Just adding, from their website: > Investors: We've raised several million dollars from amazing VCs like General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins, and angels like Jason Warner, Adam Gross, Olivier Pomel, Scott Belsky, Will Gaybrick and a handful of other impressive dev tool founders and executives. The fact that a CLI tool raised millions of dollars while also being basically powered by open-source contributions is also…
I just wanted be a fly on the wall when Fig founders were pitching to these investors on how they are gonna make money. Can NOT this tool say to my employer - How many times I compile my code in a day ? When I get a compilation error - how quickly it gets to compiling state again ? Was the compilation error a trivial mistake ? How much time is spent between each commands ? How productive I am keying in command one af…
I think you misunderstand how tools like this sell, the enterprise offering will be fully supported integration of tools that are enterprisey (Cisco gear, Netapp, Fortinet, Xen, VMware, Veeam) and a hosted offering so teams can collaborate on scripts and snippets á la postman.
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#318By looking at [2] from the authors post. This just defeats what shell is made for. Shell is all about scripting not clicking mouse around and writing some custom commands.
I really don't understand who would use this. Maybe i'm too oldschool and grew up with shell so i'm used to the complexity and power it provides.
Would probably never even try such a tool.
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As soon as I saw the title I anticipated the Dropbox conversation! I’m guessing people like me who use the shell as a means to an end. Honestly most of the time I’m using git bash “coz it’s there” and hate typing in commands. I actively avoid it. I installed LENS for kubernetes to avoid it. I’d rather write a script in an IDE and run that than be working at the command line. Because then I can treat it like code, rev…
Out of curiosity, do the scripts you write take options or arguments? Or are they generally just invoked directly?
Sometimes arguments and sometimes not.
Often the argument is simply test vs prod. So I can run it on my machine but also run it from Travis ci.
Any connections or secrets would be in the environment. For local I’d create another script to set them up and call the first script. Why? So the secrets don’t end up in the repo by mistake.
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No, I think it's incumbent on us developers to be more willing to pay for things. We know now that free doesn't really work.
I'm willing to pay if it's on hacker friendly terms, e.g. something similar to the Sublime Text model: * No sign in/email required * Works offline * No subscription * Updates for 3 years included in price * Perpetual license for older versions * License per user, unlimited devices and operating systems, including home/work devices * License is just a matter of copying a file * No telemetry/phoning home without explic…
Unless something external changes the incentives in the market you aren’t gonna see bits in a box return as a business model any time soon. ARR is the only metric that matters to get you funding, it’s way more expensive to support multiple versions than something evergreen, and you can’t really do per-user unlimited device licensing without a login. You can fake it with per user keys but then someone has to have a login to manage them still and your key is now essentially just a login where self-service password resets can’t be done. Why bother when companies clamor for SSO about a billion times more than they ask for anonymous user accounts?