Fig was one of the first dev tools that I have been so happy to be able to use every day and would gladly pay for. I’m very sad about this.
Fig is sunsetting
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#22Hahaha, I knew it. We all knew it.
Seeing the aftermath of corporate acquisitions, especially in the tech industry, is always interesting. Over my ten years in the field, I’ve seen three companies go through big changes during and after being acquired. It’s funny how companies try to convince everyone that nothing will change, even though it almost always does. People’s reactions range from hopeful to in denial about the changes.
Is it because people are delusional or psychopaths trying to make other people believe their lies.
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#23That's sad but expected. I actually had switched and disabled fig a few days ago because the app was using a lot of resources and probably had some memory leaks and crashed.
I find the autocomplete feature useful. I don't trust the GenAI commands even with gh copilot. I really hope that one day we can get a tool that will simulate the consequences of a command on your particular machine/environment but I admit that would be very hard.
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#24Well, who would thought, acquired a few months ago and poof
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#25Anyone have experience with any options for something that's not run by Amazon?
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#26They raised at least 2.2M in funding. Then they got acquired. Now it's over. I do think it's time we stop pretending that you can build a fully-fledged company on top of a developer tool or plugin.
Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.
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#27Hahaha, I knew it. We all knew it. Seeing the aftermath of corporate acquisitions, especially in the tech industry, is always interesting. Over my ten years in the field, I’ve seen three companies go through big changes during and after being acquired. It’s funny how companies try to convince everyone that nothing will change, even though it almost always does. People’s reactions range from hopeful to in denial about…
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#28They raised at least 2.2M in funding. Then they got acquired. Now it's over. I do think it's time we stop pretending that you can build a fully-fledged company on top of a developer tool or plugin. Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.
At $2.2M in funding, they are (likely) on a SAFE. There's no board, meaning no real VC pressure. They used that money to build... it's not like they were a beloved, widely used developer tool ruined by VC money.
It sucks, but to build certain things, you sometimes need money. $2.2M isn't a ton – they raised in 2020, so that's roughly only (market) salaries for 3 people for those 3 years.
Not everything will work out. But good on Fig for trying, and good on Fig for finding a solution that (hopefully?) did right by themselves and their team, and good on them for leaving Fig open-sourced.
(And to the Fig-ians reading this, congrats :) )
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#29The related acquisition thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401 Edit: And the Launch HN from March 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819
It’s so interesting to see the full circle of acquisition PR.
Nice. These guys started up, cashed in, sold out, and bro'd down all in the span of three years.
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#30Are there alternatives to fig for linux? Seems like amazon code whisperer is macos only.
Not explicitly what you're asking for but fish shell gets you a long way into what fig was offering for usability improvements, but without being a closed source SAAS cloud app laden with telemetry.