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Amazon acquires Fig

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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by Tao3300 »

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…

> Amazon has acquired Fig's technology!

That's a euphemism. These companies "acquire technology" in the same sense that revolutionaries acquired Louis XVI's head.

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Post by webel0 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #169
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…

Isn't Fig open source? Now'd be the time for people to fork it while there's still the opportunity to do so if they find genuine value in the project. My favorite 'acquihire' story is when Oracle bought out MySQL and the creator forked it and made MariaDB.

IIRC only their autocompletion recipes are. Not the actual application itself.

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Post by LoganDark »

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…

Yeah this is cloud9 all over again. Killing new registrations, eventually forcing existing users to migrate to AWS, for a worse product as a service.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by jonathankoren »

scosman wrote: post #121
berkes wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I read it as “hosted AWS version coming soon, we will email you when it’s time to migrate”. If it was just acquihire there probably wouldn’t have a big blog post tying it to AWS. Just negative publicity for acquirer when they could shut down quietly.

The blog post doesn't mean anything. HN is full of congratulatory posts of acquihires. They're all the same. "Now that we're part of $BIGCO we'll be working to integrate our technology into $BIGCO."

It never happens.

If $BIGCO had any intent to keep the product along, you'd be reading the post on $BIGCO's blog, not $FAILEDSTARTUP's blog.

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Post by projectileboy »

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…

Acquisitions are usually great for the shareholders, and usually bad for the employees and the customers.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by SilentNuke »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #24
w-ll wrote: post #8

Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?

Wait till you learn about Raycast. https://www.raycast.com I've heard a lot of good things about Raycast. I'm very tempted to jump ship from Alfred. Still hanging on.

I've also been a paid user of Alfred for nearly a decade. I tried Raycast in it's early stages, also became a paid user, and haven't gone back to Alfred.

I adore and appreciate Alfred, it was one of the first applications I would install on a new Mac. However, Raycast is a very well polished product and has been a great add-on to the daily arsenal.

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Post by xcdzvyn »

pbbakkum wrote: post #110
xcdzvyn wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, do you have any intent on adding local model support?

I've experimented with it, the reason I haven't yet added it is that I want deployment to be seamless, and it's not trivial to ship a binary that would (without extra fuss or configuration) efficiently support Metal and CUDA, plus download the models in a graceful way. This is of course possible, but still hard, and not clear if it's the right place to spend energy. I'm curious how you think about it - is your primar…

The latter mostly. It's also free, uncensored, and can never disappear from under me.

FWIW, from my understanding llama.cpp is pretty easy to integrate and is reasonably fast for being API agnostic. Ollama embeds it, for example. No pressure, just pointing it out :)

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by noitpmeder »

shrimpx wrote: post #105
ams92 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Unless it's an acquihire where you get ~nothing for your stock and you have to interview to keep your job.

Lol and it's at amazon -- I imagine they'll lose a bunch of staff over that fact alone.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by jtj606 »

keyle wrote: post #160
berkes wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Do you know of any product that was acquihire and wasn't decimated?

GitHub?
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