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He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.
by 404mm 3y ago
He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.
- seizethecheese 3y agoIs 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).
- candiddevmike 3y agoThe blog post reads like an acqui-hire, which almost always means the product gets shut down or open sourced and left for dead.
- miah_ 3y agoNo, 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 3y agoor at least become more annoyingly entangled with stuff, like Minecraft + Microsoft
- jsnell 3y agoDays since AWS last announced they were killing a devtool service: 4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198)
- merryje 3y ago> 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.
- candiddevmike 3y agoIt means they're abandoning the product IME
- hot_gril 3y agoIf they aren't making money directly off Fig, they're integrating it somehow.
- w0mbat 3y agoExcept people just hearing about Fig now can't sign up.
- sjentrep 3y agoYeah this is true. I'm deeply disappointed with my experience with Fig. Despite high anticipation among my friends in the community, the inability to log in has rendered it useless for us, prompting me to uninstall fig. I hope Fig addresses these issues to provide a more satisfying user experience in the future with a proper timeline.
- johnnyanmac 3y agocan'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.