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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by ilc »

krembo wrote: post #84
msoad wrote: post #3

is this an aquahire?

In times of employers market it's less likely to see aquahires

The market is starting to shift. It ain't where it was a year and a half ago... but the numbers say, it ain't what it was a few months ago.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by api »

the_duke wrote: post #72

> 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…

I would never use a cloud-syncing cloud-connected terminal for simple security and privacy reasons alone, not to mention the fact that if it goes down I become basically disabled as a developer or admin.

Several companies have tried to SaaSify the terminal and failed, so I suspect I am not alone here.

"We've noticed that there's a component of the computing infrastructure that isn't sending everything you do to the cloud and charging monthly rent..."

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by KomoD »

topato wrote: post #27
ilaksh wrote: post #15

Is there anything similar for Linux?

There is a Linux and (I believe) a Windows binary of Fig available. You might need to hunt a bit to find it, at least, I needed to last year. Their Discord used to be the place for that info.

Except we (new users) can't use it regardless, since signups are closed.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by Hamuko »

pbbakkum wrote: post #103

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!

Is this in any way related to the fish shell or is this just a very unfortunate name?

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by johnnyanmac »

404mm wrote: post #37
gabereiser wrote: post #7

Congratulations!? I do hope that means AWS’s ever growing cli commands will be all fig now (or will be)? It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. What about support outside of AWS? Will fig still be as awesome in iTerm2 with what-ever-is-in-%PATH%?

He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.

can't blame them. work on what seems to be a obviously needed tool, manage it for 2.5 years, then get "not acquired" by Amazon to take it off your hands, especially since the money was coming from enterprise and larger teams to begin with.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by w0mbat »

high_priest wrote: post #96
w0mbat wrote: post #90

I installed Fig just now and got "Something went wrong. Signups are currently disabled." when I tried to use it. Their servers have been overwhelmed by Hacker News traffic presumably.

There is a note: ``` Note: While we integrate with AWS, Fig is currently not accepting new sign ups ```

Yeah, now I see it.

Banning signups just when they get an inrush like this seems a boneheaded move. You never know who you can upsell on AWS later.

brew remove fig

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by w0mbat »

jackblemming wrote: post #43

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.

Acquihires generally get a better comp deal than hires, they just don't tend to make much off the acquisition deal unless they are high up. If their comp includes accelerated vesting rather than the terrible Amazon slowcoach vesting it could be decent.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by dang »

throwawayfigs wrote: post #64

"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! " That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry". Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the…

We usually change such titles to something like "$Acquirer aquires $Acquiree" and I've done that above now.
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