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Completely agree about Electron - it's really heavy. That's why we built Fig as a Swift app. Also, just to clarify, Fig isn't a terminal emulator itself. It at

Completely agree about Electron - it's really heavy. That's why we built Fig as a Swift app. Also, just to clarify, Fig isn't a terminal emulator itself. It attaches to whichever one you currently use.

laumars 6y ago
Your landing page does an absolutely terrible job explaining anything about your product though. I assume this is aimed at engineers and technical managers rather than non-technical folk (because why would a non-technical manager be using the terminal)? The fact I had to scroll 5 pages (on iOS Safari), past multiple elevator pitches, FAANG “testimonials” (who cares if a couple of engineers in Google liked your Github repo?) and sign up pages just to see a single screenshot, and not even one that does a good job at demonstrating your product, shows just how out of whack the landing page is with your target audience. As it is, I am a manager myself and looking at standardising some of our toolchain ahead of onboarding around 8 new engineers in September (4 of who will be graduates so might benefit from tools like this) and I gave up with the idea of this when I couldn’t extrapolate how we would use and integrate it into our existing workflows. Frankly, it was frustrating to find something that went from “ohh this might be useful” to “I’ve read their content and I still have no idea how this thing works”.
- pcr910303 6y ago
  Well, TBF I grasped it quite quickly (although I viewed it on my MBP). The demonstration video on the top was quite useful to understand what it is (although I guess I leaved the tab long enough for the mp4 to load, they should compress the video - seems you couldn't see it due to load times), and the explanation that it works on any kind of terminal (including Terminal.app) implied that it's not another terminal but an add-on. I guess they're not that polished yet as they were planing to do a Show HN...
- mschrage 6y ago
  Honestly this is really useful feedback. I think the page might be broken on mobile. There should be a large video demonstrating the product at the top.(https://withfig.com/video/final.mp4 https://withfig.com/video/final.mp4) You're exactly the type of person we're trying to help, so we clearly need to communicate our value prop better! If you have some time to chat, I'd love to talk. My email is matt [at] withfig.com
  - mthoms 6y ago
    FYI, the animations didn't work for me in MacOS Safari (with AdGuard extension, though I'm not sure thats the reason)

laumars 6y ago

Your landing page does an absolutely terrible job explaining anything about your product though. I assume this is aimed at engineers and technical managers rather than non-technical folk (because why would a non-technical manager be using the terminal)? The fact I had to scroll 5 pages (on iOS Safari), past multiple elevator pitches, FAANG “testimonials” (who cares if a couple of engineers in Google liked your Github repo?) and sign up pages just to see a single screenshot, and not even one that does a good job at demonstrating your product, shows just how out of whack the landing page is with your target audience. As it is, I am a manager myself and looking at standardising some of our toolchain ahead of onboarding around 8 new engineers in September (4 of who will be graduates so might benefit from tools like this) and I gave up with the idea of this when I couldn’t extrapolate how we would use and integrate it into our existing workflows. Frankly, it was frustrating to find something that went from “ohh this might be useful” to “I’ve read their content and I still have no idea how this thing works”.

pcr910303 6y ago
Well, TBF I grasped it quite quickly (although I viewed it on my MBP). The demonstration video on the top was quite useful to understand what it is (although I guess I leaved the tab long enough for the mp4 to load, they should compress the video - seems you couldn't see it due to load times), and the explanation that it works on any kind of terminal (including Terminal.app) implied that it's not another terminal but an add-on. I guess they're not that polished yet as they were planing to do a Show HN...
mschrage 6y ago
Honestly this is really useful feedback. I think the page might be broken on mobile. There should be a large video demonstrating the product at the top.(https://withfig.com/video/final.mp4 https://withfig.com/video/final.mp4) You're exactly the type of person we're trying to help, so we clearly need to communicate our value prop better! If you have some time to chat, I'd love to talk. My email is matt [at] withfig.com
- mthoms 6y ago
  FYI, the animations didn't work for me in MacOS Safari (with AdGuard extension, though I'm not sure thats the reason)