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fig.io is the company blog at fig.io, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2021, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 67 times, most often “Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Landing, docs and blog pages for Fig, a terminal autocomplete tool. Commenters mostly mention the product as a reference; the linked posts cover its launch, pricing, privacy policy and sunsetting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal16 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2021-07-14
- Fig: Autocomplete for the Terminal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-19
- /docs/getting-started3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-26
- Launching Fig3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-18
- /videos/old-sizzle-reel.mp42 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-05-25
- /privacy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-25
- Fig is sunsetting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
What Hacker News says?
This is really awesome Zach & team, congrats on the awesome work. I just installed it and I already replaced my default terminal (it was iTerm before). I wonder if you thought of adding plugins a-la Fig [1], but using WebAssembly instead of being restricted by Javascript? Some projects like Lapce [2], Dprint [3], Fiberplane [4] are already using this strategy to extend their ecosystems and I really believe it could…
Comment linking /docs/getting-started
on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal as a story · 587 points
HN discussionOh yea, Fig is also the one that is Mac only but never mentions that fact anywhere on their website. Everything is written to just presume that the reader is on a Mac. Their getting started instructions [0] are all just terminal commands too, and even that doesn't mention Mac once. [0] - https://fig.io/docs/getting-started
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal as a story · 559 points
HN discussionThis is why I deleted Fig ( https://fig.io/ ) right after installing it. It must've sent some uninstall information, too, because the creator/CEO emailed asking why I uninstalled it afterwards...
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Fig is sunsetting as a story · 148 points
HN discussionFor completions, I would recommend becoming compatible with https://fig.io/ ; perhaps investigating a partnership or even merger with them.
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Fig now supports JetBrains IDEs as a story · 76 points
HN discussionWeird that people are promoting such data collecting tool.. ohh it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819 - Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) oh they haven't removed the tracking thing in the url: https://fig.io/?ref=hn i would love to see what's the algorithm of hackernews, do they give a little boost when it is about their products?
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on “Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal”Submitted Launching Fig as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI was curious too. From https://fig.io/blog/post/launching-fig : How will Fig make money? We get asked this question a lot and so as a final note to our launch, I thought it would be good to address it. First, Fig will always be free for individuals. We want users to feel confident that even if they sign up to Fig and become the biggest power user, they will never be charged. Our pricing model is inspired by GitHub'…
Comment linking /blog/post/launching-fig
on “Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal”Submitted Manage Your Dotfiles with Fig as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFrom https://fig.io/privacy : > Inevitably, there will be users who, for whatever reason, don't want their usage of Fig to be personally tracked. Of course. It's your data and software on your device. You shouldn't even need a reason. We want to cater to these users. And we will. But unfortunately, we are so early on in the process of building Fig that we need to be able to speak to our users. De-anonymising telemet…
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on “Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal”Submitted An Ode to Curl as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI don't understand this response, so let me rephrase my question. This page https://fig.io/docs/getting-started says that Node.js and NPM is required to use Fig. I presumed this meant that Fig was written in JavaScript, but you're saying it's native. Then why is Node required? If you're using web views for UI, wouldn't those web views on each respective platform already have their own JS engines?
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Launching Fig: Autocomplete for your terminal as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWe totally agree! This is exactly where we want to take Fig. The autocomplete product is built using an API that extends terminals with visual apps and shortcuts. Using the same API, you can build an app that interactively displays photos or wraps a common ffmpeg workflow. We prototyped[0] a bunch of ideas like this during YC last summer, before deciding to start with autocomplete. [0] https://fig.io/videos/old-sizz…
Comment linking /videos/old-sizzle-reel.mp4
on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Fig Has Joined AWS as a story · 10 points
HN discussionTo get autocomplete working, you just need to install the macOS app. ( https://fig.io/hn ) These instructions only apply if you want to develop your own completion specs and are setting up the dev environment!
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted How does Fig know what you've typed in the terminal? as a story · 8 points
HN discussion> Is the VC backing for another product and the CLI tool is just a PR thing? Autocomplete is our first product. The bigger vision that Fig can enable an ecosystem of terminal extensions. Here are some early prototypes we built [0] and here is the discussion from when we were posted on HN last summer [1]. > Is the business model just selling our data? We will never sell data. That just isn't the business we want to b…
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted How to supercharge your shell workflows as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYes it will! See this example: https://fig.io/images/slideshow/screenshots/ssh.png It should work out of the box, but you may have some issues if you have multiple SSH connections to the same remote machine or if your remote machine uses an async prompt (like powerlevel10k). If you have any issues, feel free to email me and I'll help get you set up brendan AT fig DOT io
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Build internal CLI tools faster as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDid you use this link: https://fig.io/hn ? Let me know if you still can't get access. matt [at] fig.io
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Fig is ending their service as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks so much! Yes - we would love to build our own terminal one day. I agree, a first party experience will make Fig much better. We think a good terminal needs to be fast, cross platform, customisable, and extendable (this is easier said than done). That said, one day we hope to build team-based tools too. Developers like to choose their tools - we would love to make Fig work, even if you weren't using a Fig term…
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Fig Pricing Tiers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs in, if you SSH into a remote machine, Fig can offer completions for that remote machine. Same thing if you are running an interactive terminal for a docker container. This image may help clarify: https://fig.io/images/slideshow/screenshots/ssh.png
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Fig – Your Terminal, Reimagined as a story · 2 points
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