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The telemetry part didn't bug me that much, but the product itself was cool, reminds me of warp.dev
Congratz on the acquisition.
It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!
Seems like an acquihire!
Seems like I dodged a bullet. When I interviewed there the founder asked very generic questions that may as well have come straight out of an Amazon leadership principles pamphlet. I bet Amazon will be a good fit for them. I feel bad for the employees who likely wanted to work for a startup, not Amazon. I’d be surprised if they got much from the acquihire either.
You join a startup in hopes of it getting acquired or going public some day. Fig was never going to go public so if I worked there I’d be happy about the acquisition assuming that I wasn’t stiffed on my stock options when joining.
> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…
To me the whole post read like "we are aquihired, but we cannot admit we are are aquihired". The closing of registration driving it home. If AWS bought it for the product, what reason would there ever be to stop the current business model entirely rather than leaving it on its current trajectory for a few months, untill said "needs" are addressed?
Plugging a project of mine: I've been working on a similar idea for the era of LLMs: https://butterfi.sh . It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!
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To me the whole post read like "we are aquihired, but we cannot admit we are are aquihired". The closing of registration driving it home. If AWS bought it for the product, what reason would there ever be to stop the current business model entirely rather than leaving it on its current trajectory for a few months, untill said "needs" are addressed?
Reminds me of Slapdash's and Command-E acquisitions. Both still living in a limbo last I checked...
Plugging a project of mine: I've been working on a similar idea for the era of LLMs: https://butterfi.sh . It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!
Just curious, do you have any intent on adding local model support?