[HN Gopher] Amazon acquires Fig
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       Amazon acquires Fig
        
       Author : fatfox
       Score  : 270 points
       Date   : 2023-08-28 16:13 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | rexreed wrote:
       | Oh times have changed. In days past acquisitions of startups by
       | big tech were met with congratulation and adulation. Today they
       | are met with dread and despair.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | cush wrote:
       | Fig is awesome. Congrats to the team!
        
       | w0mbat wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | high_priest wrote:
         | There is a note: ``` Note: While we integrate with AWS, Fig is
         | currently not accepting new sign ups ```
        
           | w0mbat wrote:
           | 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
        
             | hot_gril wrote:
             | Really makes me think they don't intend to keep it around
             | for long.
        
           | [deleted]
        
       | masto wrote:
       | These features are nice, but I've never liked the idea of having
       | to use a whole new terminal application to get them.
       | 
       | I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it's not that I'm not willing
       | to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being
       | rigid about having one true development environment, I've moved
       | away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous
       | environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these platform-
       | specific thick client apps no longer feel like the way to go.
        
         | askew wrote:
         | You may be thinking of Warp (https://www.warp.dev/)
        
         | veg wrote:
         | There's no need for a new terminal. Their homepage literally
         | says "IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal".
        
           | hot_gril wrote:
           | I also thought the wrong thing at first since the big front
           | and center title on the homepage says "The next-generation
           | command line."
        
         | rollcat wrote:
         | To be honest I do think it's time we move on from emulating
         | teletypes, but I also believe that whatever comes next has to
         | be an open standard, with competing implementations.
         | 
         | There's a whole graveyard out there of "next-gen" terminal
         | projects, and none of those still alive seems to be gaining
         | dominance. I don't think writing down a spec would help this,
         | but it would be great if whatever emerged victorious had one.
        
         | hot_gril wrote:
         | Sticking to Vim and other very well-established CLIs is
         | partially what enabled flexibility for me. As long as I have
         | access to a *nix machine locally or over SSH, I have a capable
         | dev setup that I'm well-versed in. Same thing for the past 8
         | jobs I've bounced around in, whether in-office or remote, with
         | whatever security restrictions, with or without a desk, maybe
         | with just a 13" laptop. It's the lowest common denominator.
         | Meanwhile my teammates at my current job are constantly trying
         | to protect their workstation setups so they can use their IDEs
         | locally, and they've also been forced to switch IDEs twice in
         | the past couple of years.
         | 
         | And this isn't coming from some FOSS ideology. I don't
         | personally care about any of that, but the best tools are
         | sometimes FOSS. I've got a Mac and can deal with Linux as
         | needed.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | oxalorg wrote:
         | Curious to learn more about your switch from Emacs to VSCode?
         | 
         | I'm a super confused soul, and currently I use all of them:
         | 
         | - Emacs (for clojure / lisps / big projects).
         | 
         | - NeoVim (for when I want to work in the shell, smaller
         | scripts/playground, ssh).
         | 
         | - VScode (js / ts / frontend / figma / etc).
         | 
         | I've made both my vim and emacs keybindings / features almost
         | identical, so there is limited context switching there.
         | 
         | I feel very slow in VSCode, I don't even have one of my most
         | common task optimised in VSCode yet: grepping something and
         | quickly moving to that buffer.
        
       | Alifatisk wrote:
       | I had completely forgot about Fig, I remember trying it out on my
       | previous laptop, it didn't offer anything more than my zsh-
       | autocomplete, which made me send in my feedback before
       | uninstalling.
       | 
       | The telemetry part didn't bug me that much, but the product
       | itself was cool, reminds me of warp.dev
       | 
       | Congratz on the acquisition.
        
       | ibdf wrote:
       | Congratulations! I've been using it for about a year or so.
       | Hopefully their product will continue to exist... that's what
       | their blog says now, but that's pretty much what everyone says at
       | first.
        
         | sdesol wrote:
         | > Hopefully their product will continue to exist
         | 
         | They seem to have built a decent community, so I can see it
         | continuing, provided the core/all code for Fig is open source.
         | In the last 6 weeks, 57 new contributors took the time to
         | create 62 issues and 111 new contributors took the time to
         | comment. These are very heathy community metrics, but there
         | hasn't been a lot of code activity, which would make sense if
         | they were focused on the sale to AWS.
         | 
         | Source for my insights from
         | https://devboard.gitsense.com/withfig
         | 
         | Full Disclosure: This is my tool
        
           | acka wrote:
           | AFAICT the core of Fig isn't open source. (Why else would
           | there be a waiting list for Linux users if they could just
           | grab the code for Fig and build it themselves?)
           | 
           | What you are looking at seems to be a repository of
           | autocompletion specs and some server to publish them.
        
       | scarface_74 wrote:
       | > There aren't any updates to share at this time on future plans,
       | 
       | Wait for the "Our amazing journey" post where Amazon is just
       | going to shut their product down
        
         | appel wrote:
         | Yep. Unfortunately great for the founders and (hopefully) for
         | the team, but my first thought is always "another one bites the
         | dust". Here's hoping we're both wrong.
        
           | scarface_74 wrote:
           | Well, not that I have any particular insight on how
           | acquisitions work at AWS. But as a recent former employee in
           | Professional Services, I do know how AWS operates as far as
           | go to market strategies since we officially came under sales.
           | Even though I was a billable consultant.
           | 
           | It would make no sense for AWS to treat this as ongoing
           | concern. They are probably going to integrate it with their
           | other products - Cloud 9 , the AWS CLI, CloudShell etc.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | nikolay wrote:
       | Seems like an acquihire!
        
         | tgv wrote:
         | I had never heard about them, but for the life of me, I cannot
         | imagine sufficient paying customers: it's zsh/fish, basically.
         | Sharing the settings is not really a $12/month productivity
         | boost. Acquihire sounds likely.
        
           | mteigers wrote:
           | I've been a personal paying customer going on 2 years now.
           | The biggest benefit I get from fig is their "build a script /
           | cli" functionality. With it you can define UI elements like
           | "list all branches" and you have a nice UI sector and then
           | you can string together code snippets using the outputs of
           | the UI elements. So I have some fig scripts that prompt me
           | for half a dozen inputs and then execute bash and python
           | based on the outputs.
           | 
           | Fig has been a godsend for acting as glue for one-off bash
           | scripts that are added to repos.
        
       | blondin wrote:
       | i never thought fig or warp would ever work. requiring an account
       | and a subscription to use CLI tools sounds ludicrous. but they
       | seem to have found a silver bullet with AWS since having an
       | account is a requirement anyway.
       | 
       | good luck to them on what comes next.
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | Another so called 'incredible journey' which the VCs (including
       | YC) accelerated an exit.
        
         | swyx wrote:
         | nobody's forcing amazon to do anything they dont want to do lol
         | 
         | but it is true that this is a rare devtools startup acquisition
         | by amazon. i cant think of many here (cloud9 was the last one i
         | know, and that was 2016) but that could be due to my ignorance.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | jackblemming wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | w0mbat wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | ams92 wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | shrimpx wrote:
           | Unless it's an acquihire where you get ~nothing for your
           | stock and you have to interview to keep your job.
        
       | the_duke wrote:
       | > 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 current users I guess.
        
         | api wrote:
         | 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..."
        
           | politelemon wrote:
           | Yes I'm genuinely shocked at the other comments here saying
           | they use this happily; it should be a cause for concern. That
           | it's now landing in Amazon's lap, doubly so.
        
             | nojito wrote:
             | > All cloud features are opt-in and your data is encrypted
             | at rest. For autocomplete, all of your keystrokes are
             | processed locally and never leave your device.
             | 
             | Fig is a great product.
        
           | hot_gril wrote:
           | If Fig goes down, you fall back to the regular shell that
           | doesn't have autocomplete etc. If Fig gets hacked, that's
           | scary, then again GitHub and others are similarly big
           | targets.
           | 
           | Idk though, this doesn't seem useful enough to me as an
           | individual that I'd bother looking into it. Maybe for a team
           | or company.
        
         | gpvos wrote:
         | They give a timeline of a few weeks, so presumably we'll see
         | soon enough.
        
         | berkes wrote:
         | 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?
        
           | scosman wrote:
           | 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.
        
             | dwaltrip wrote:
             | > 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.
             | 
             | That's a good point.
             | 
             | But what reason is there to disable new registrations?
        
           | theolivenbaum wrote:
           | Reminds me of Slapdash's and Command-E acquisitions. Both
           | still living in a limbo last I checked...
        
             | jtreminio wrote:
             | Command-E is now Dropbox Dash and has been receiving fairly
             | heavy promotion.
        
         | ryneandal wrote:
         | Yeah, that is my expectation about its future as well. I really
         | enjoyed using Fig for clear CLI introspection for many of my
         | common workflows.
         | 
         | I am fully expecting that I'll have to go back to zsh-
         | autosuggestions once the current iteration is fully wound down.
        
       | Brajeshwar wrote:
       | That was fast. Fig's HackerNews launch (May 25, 2021)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819
       | 
       | Have seen Brendan talk a lot about it on Twitter.
        
       | nerdjon wrote:
       | Will be interesting to see what happens to this long term, but
       | hopefully means good things. I use the tool personally but really
       | for largely basic things.
       | 
       | The dropdown for autocomplete is far from necessary but a nice
       | addition. Helping with completing commands that I don't use often
       | but know the basics of like "aws s3 cp" is nice. But because of
       | that I could just never justify spending money on it.
       | 
       | Hopefully it isn't abandoned, but maybe this will also mean they
       | don't have to try to find artificial reasons (or bloat) to
       | convince people to pay and can just focus on the core offering.
        
       | diebillionaires wrote:
       | I can't help but not want to use a CLI I have to log into.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | pbbakkum wrote:
       | 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!
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | Is this in any way related to the fish shell or is this just a
         | very unfortunate name?
        
         | politelemon wrote:
         | > Within Butterfish Shell you can send a ChatGPT prompt by just
         | starting a command with a capital letter, for example:
         | 
         | This is a dangerous assumption. Not all commands are lowercase.
         | Interaction with an external service should be a deliberate,
         | discrete action on the user's part.
        
         | subw00f wrote:
         | I like that a lot! It would be awesome if the client running on
         | goal mode had capabilities to request some search engine API +
         | do some crawling. Imagine getting the info out of up to date
         | github issues or directly from AWS docs.
        
         | xcdzvyn wrote:
         | Just curious, do you have any intent on adding local model
         | support?
        
           | pbbakkum wrote:
           | 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 primary desire to work offline or avoid sending data
           | to OpenAI? Or both?
        
       | desireco42 wrote:
       | This is very damaging for other startups. You create something,
       | then you ask people to believe you and invest their time and
       | sometimes money with you.
       | 
       | Then you, in act of desperation, sell out and sell your users...
       | 
       | The issue is, people are already super skeptical when these
       | startups start asking for things, this just makes them even
       | harder to get users to trust you as a emerging company or product
       | with data and usage.
        
         | hot_gril wrote:
         | Startups don't have big reputations to protect unless they're
         | tied to someone famous, and also they need a path towards
         | acquisition for early investors to care. There isn't really a
         | way around that.
        
       | mullingitover wrote:
       | Seems like tough competition in this space. Warp has what's
       | essentially Github Copilot in the CLI, and it's the same price.
       | 
       | Beyond that, actual GH Copilot does a damn good job of crafting
       | any CLI command that you can describe.
        
         | mirekrusin wrote:
         | Where is open source alternative?
        
         | mavamaarten wrote:
         | Fig works in any terminal though, and its free tier gives me
         | useful enough recommendations and docs. It's very useful to be
         | able to use IDE-like autocomplete inside my IDE, which is the
         | terminal I use 99% of the time. As far as I'm aware, Warp is
         | really a standalone gig.
        
           | Takennickname wrote:
           | Isn't it mac only?
        
       | jarek83 wrote:
       | Interesting - I tried Fig for few days few months ago, it gave me
       | more headaches than relief so uninstalled it. Surprised that it
       | made into a viable product and shocked it actually got acquired.
        
       | myth_drannon wrote:
       | I checked Fig when it was announced but preferred Warp for some
       | reason. I think it looked nicer and was snappier.
        
       | acmecorps wrote:
       | Tried to check it out, but I got "Signups are currently disabled"
       | :(
        
         | gurchik wrote:
         | > 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.
        
         | throwaway8725 wrote:
         | I was trying to get it working and it seems like running `fig
         | login` in the terminal and then restarting the app enables the
         | terminal autocomplete!
        
       | charles_f wrote:
       | How does that align with Amazon's product line? Is Fig an online
       | product?
        
       | SoftwareDev6 wrote:
       | Pretty cool for the Fig team.
        
         | dexterdog wrote:
         | Probably not the entire team.
        
       | nicechianti wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | ranting-moth wrote:
       | How does one join AWS?
        
         | ilc wrote:
         | 1. Wrong thread.
         | 
         | 2. IMHO: Be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I've never
         | heard a happy story about Amazon that didn't involve a metric
         | ton of Kool-Aid.
        
         | throwawayfigs wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
         | asadm wrote:
         | leetcode and reducing self-respect
        
       | shermix011 wrote:
       | So AWS's dev ex will get better?
        
         | firstSpeaker wrote:
         | very likely this will become part of AWS CodeWhisperer. I
         | wouldnt be surprised if MSFT or GOOG going after WARP for
         | example to counter balance.
        
       | varispeed wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | msoad wrote:
       | is this an aquahire?
        
         | KolmogorovComp wrote:
         | To spare someone else a research, it's another term for 'talent
         | acquisition' [0].
         | 
         | [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring
        
         | krembo wrote:
         | In times of employers market it's less likely to see aquahires
        
           | ilc wrote:
           | 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.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | mzg wrote:
         | No, presumably these employees will be based on dry land
        
           | Brajeshwar wrote:
           | I'm not one that laughs at others' auto-correct bloopers. I
           | have made quite a lot of mistakes myself. But your quick
           | reply made me laugh for a good 90-sec or so.
        
             | tough wrote:
             | lmao some times auto-correct typo's are better than what
             | you wrote indeed
        
             | wpietri wrote:
             | Right? To me it's more than just a cheap joke because it
             | opens such possibilities. My first thought was of Amazon
             | expanding out under Puget Sound in Bioshock-esque sunken
             | office buildings.
        
           | stevenally wrote:
           | No, it's an aquahire. They're joining Amazon...
        
             | [deleted]
        
           | ibejoeb wrote:
           | Rumor is they're going to offshore the whole operation...
        
           | cjaybo wrote:
           | Once they dry off after leaving the hiring pool at least
        
           | kashnote wrote:
           | Slow. Clap.
        
       | throwawayfigs wrote:
       | "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 realm of the possible for me I 'm
       | honestly baffled to see this has any customers...
        
         | hedgehog wrote:
         | That wording implies an asset sale which is for anyone involved
         | in or doing business with Fig a big difference. In that case
         | existing ownership and obligations stay with the original
         | entity (probably something like Fig Inc, Delaware corp), the
         | whole team gets hired on at Amazon, Amazon buys the tech they
         | want for some payment the Fig board signs off on, and then
         | someone goes in to clean up and wind down Fig Inc. It's common
         | when big companies buy much smaller companies because doing a
         | full purchase can be a lot more complicated.
        
           | guytv wrote:
           | ... and ther's a big difference in taxation.
        
             | hedgehog wrote:
             | 100% I would imagine there are big differences on both
             | sides, and possibly some ways to exempt some of the payment
             | for assets against the cost of building them. People don't
             | usually write much about this level of detail but it would
             | be interesting to see.
        
         | guytv wrote:
         | If the arrangement involved both a tech purchase and a
         | contractual obligation for employees to stay with AWS for a set
         | period, simply saying "Fig was acquired" wouldn't be accurate.
         | Given that Amazon is a publicly traded company, making such
         | misleading statements is a no-go.
        
         | hoffs wrote:
         | This seem like perfect replacement of Amazon's cloud shell
         | thing
        
         | tesseract wrote:
         | > 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
         | 
         | Often that kind of language is employed when the actual
         | transaction was structured as an asset sale coupled with en-
         | masse hiring of the team, rather than a true acquisition of the
         | company as a complete entity, which is not an unusual scenario
         | when a company is in distress.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | dang wrote:
         | We usually change such titles to something like "$Acquirer
         | aquires $Acquiree" and I've done that above now.
        
         | hot_gril wrote:
         | Amazon buying Fig doesn't imply the team joins AWS.
        
           | gdsdfe wrote:
           | when a company buys another company it kinda does the
           | opposite would be the outlier
        
             | onion2k wrote:
             | It's much more common for the acquired company to continue
             | as an entity in its own right with only the board changing
             | in the short term, and often continuing as a brand within
             | the acquirer's business in the long term. Integrating a
             | existing team into a company is hard. That said, Amazon has
             | a lot of experience doing exactly that. I think they'll be
             | fine.
        
             | hot_gril wrote:
             | Amazon isn't the same thing as AWS. Amazon might have
             | bought Fig and kept the team separate, or they might've
             | kept the tech and shortly after let the team go.
        
             | [deleted]
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | bastardoperator wrote:
       | I could never love it, but hopefully that's a nice exit for
       | everyone involved. Congrats.
        
       | rmorey wrote:
       | I love this product, have contributed several times to it, and
       | I'm a little torn. One thing I am thinking about now, is that the
       | completion specs are MIT-licensed, and it should be possible to
       | use them to re-implement a basic open-source version of the
       | autocompletion product... https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
        
       | theusus wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
         | marstall wrote:
         | maybe don't comment then?
         | 
         | It's a legit cool product that, among other things, lets you
         | use natural language in the unix command line.
        
       | ilaksh wrote:
       | Is there anything similar for Linux?
        
         | topato wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | KomoD wrote:
           | Except we (new users) can't use it regardless, since signups
           | are closed.
        
         | candiddevmike wrote:
         | Seems like direnv and shell scripts in a shared git repo could
         | be similar:
         | 
         | https://direnv.net/
        
       | dinckelman wrote:
       | As a regular terminal user, I didn't find Fig particularly useful
       | to begin with, but this just made me remove it entirely
        
       | ae_throw wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | gabereiser wrote:
       | 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%?
        
         | 404mm wrote:
         | He's thrilled because it's good for him, not for the users.
        
           | johnnyanmac wrote:
           | 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.
        
           | merryje wrote:
           | > Existing users will continue to be able to use Fig and will
           | receive ongoing support. What's more, we are now making all
           | the paid Fig Team features completely free.
           | 
           | This sounds like a win for users.
        
             | hot_gril wrote:
             | If they aren't making money directly off Fig, they're
             | integrating it somehow.
        
             | w0mbat wrote:
             | Except people just hearing about Fig now can't sign up.
        
             | candiddevmike wrote:
             | It means they're abandoning the product IME
        
           | seizethecheese wrote:
           | Is it not?
           | 
           | Any venture funded product has a sword of Damocles over its
           | head. After acquisition the company product is much less
           | likely to be shut down in the long run (unless it's Google).
        
             | miah_ wrote:
             | No, after acquisition usually the existing product is
             | usually shutdown or phased out while its features are
             | absorbed into some <new thing>.
             | 
             | With Google, everything has a huge chance of being
             | shutdown, unless its Gmail or Search, but in both of those
             | cases they will also continue to get worse over time.
        
               | hot_gril wrote:
               | or at least become more annoyingly entangled with stuff,
               | like Minecraft + Microsoft
        
             | jsnell wrote:
             | Days since AWS last announced they were killing a devtool
             | service: 4
             | 
             | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198)
        
             | candiddevmike wrote:
             | The blog post reads like an acqui-hire, which almost always
             | means the product gets shut down or open sourced and left
             | for dead.
        
       | w-ll wrote:
       | Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?
        
         | k4rli wrote:
         | Based on their frontpage example videos, it seems to be for Mac
         | users who don't know any better. I don't see anything useful
         | that isn't FOSS already.
        
           | yohannparis wrote:
           | 1. Packaging solution in an easy to use tool is what software
           | engineers do. Nothing wrong with non-FOSS solution.
           | 
           | 2. You could provide a list of FOSS solutions to replace
           | Fig.io, even better write a tutorial on how to install and
           | setup those solutions.
        
           | hot_gril wrote:
           | Either the FOSS solutions are lacking something or all those
           | corporate customers are fools.
        
             | daotoad wrote:
             | Even if the only thing fig adds is easier set up and
             | integration and consistency of setup between users that
             | could be enough to justify the cost.
             | 
             | Saving an hour of engineering time spent fiddling with your
             | CLI config every year makes this a good value for a
             | business.
        
               | hot_gril wrote:
               | Yes. Plenty of people know how to DIY or can figure it
               | out, it's not a special skill. They just don't consider
               | it worthwhile.
        
         | Brajeshwar wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | orliesaurus wrote:
           | I use Raycast - it's pretty dope and I also made my own
           | extensions
        
           | randomsofr wrote:
           | ive been using raycast on a new computer, i prefer alfred,
           | much faster, and i know the tooling better.
        
           | mavamaarten wrote:
           | Try it. I've jumped ship a while ago, and it's amazing. I
           | miss it a lot on Linux and Windows, FlowLauncher doesn't feel
           | nearly as polished and I already forgot which launcher I use
           | on my Linux install.
           | 
           | The ones I love the most are Keepass, Bitrise, and the fact
           | that you can just press enter to join the Google Meet call
           | attached to the next upcoming meeting.
        
           | dexterdog wrote:
           | I was a 10-ish year paid user of alfred and decided to try
           | raycast about a year ago. I've never gone back to alfred.
        
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         | snoose wrote:
         | No, its free, just some "advanced" features cost money
        
         | l5870uoo9y wrote:
         | I reckon scripts and secrets sharing within teams is the
         | primary feature customers pay for.
        
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         | ibdf wrote:
         | It does more than just autocomplete and it does it well.
        
       | pbmango wrote:
       | Congrats! Big fan of Fig and excited to see the UX brought to aws
       | CLIs
        
       | eikenberry wrote:
       | I feel sorry for their remote employees as their company just
       | sold them out.
        
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