Michael Seibel

Fig — Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal

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Fig adds visual apps & shortcuts to your terminal. Developers use Fig to store shell commands / snippets and add GUIs to their terminal workflows. You can also view documentation inline, launch frequently used webapps, or even build your own CLI tool.

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Matt Schrage
Hey there! 🤗 Thanks for hunting us @mwseibel. We're super excited to share Fig with the community. We built Fig because the Terminal is powerful, but unforgiving. Many engineers still struggle to customize their environments, memorize arcane feature flags, edit dot profiles, and even learn hotkeys. Beginners are thrown in the deep end. And seasoned developers can screw up their system in a few unfortunate keystrokes. There are no affordances. No hints about the 'right way' of using a tool or even finding the right tool for the job. 7 of the top 10 most upvoted StackOverflow questions are related to git. Even the biggest proponents of CLIs would be less enthusiastic if the only way to learn them was through man pages and --help flags. In the 1970s, the VT100 standard enabled terminals to take advantage of video screens by moving the cursor around with ANSI escape codes. This made a whole new class of interactive, multiline tools (like vi and emacs) possible for the first time. We believe the terminal is overdue for a new round of retrofitting. How can Fig help? ⭐ Instant access to your most used commands & shortcuts The Fig sidebar gives you one click (or hotkey) access to the commands you use most. The sidebar moves with your terminal meaning it's always with you. 🚀 The Fig App Store The Fig App Store has visual apps that integrate directly with your shell. Some examples include: visual git, visual file directory (like Finder) for local and remote machines (like through SSH), curl command wrapper, visual PSQL db viewer etc. These apps are now just a click or command away. 🔥 Build your own apps The Fig.js runtime offers a simple API that lets anyone build their own apps in html, css, js. You can build a CLI tool as easily as building a web app. Check out the docs. How can I get started? Head over to our website and click get early access. We are letting new users off our waitlist everyday! If you have any ideas for apps (or want to build one) please let us know: hello@withfig.com @brendan_falk & I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
Oliver Edholm
Launching soon!
I've used this and am amazed this hasn't been done before, excited to see where this will be in a few months!
Piotr Gaczkowski
It looks very cool! Is it cross-platform or is it limited just to Mac?
Matt Schrage
@doomhammer just MacOS at the moment as it’s a native Swift app. What OS do you use?
Kevin Unkrich
Fig is going to change the way developers interact with the terminal - get on board early.
Matt Schrage
Appreciate that @kevinunkrich ! We are really excited to see what apps people build :)
Wojciech Peczyk
I have a question: Can fig be used on Windows 10?
Matt Schrage
@wojcraft_developer Just MacOS at the moment, but cross platform support is on the roadmap.
Dhruv Gupta
Whoa this is just what I needed and will definitely save me a lot of time. Setting it up now!
Matt Schrage
Thanks Dhruv! :)
Jason Cui
Already been loving it and a huge time-saver.
Daryna Kulya
Looks amazing, congrats on the launch!
Katie Ann
What an innovative idea!! I’m so excited about this... it’s going to really help me so much. Seems crazy nobody thought of this before.
Matt Schrage
@katie_ann3 @brendan_falk and I thought the same thing!
Gulak Oleksandr
i like it!
Ming Ying
Tried it, love how it helps me with curl commands!
Sanket Saurav
Slick demo! Congrats on the launch!
Kiren Srinivasan
Ok, this looks pretty sick and I could see myself using Fig. Congrats!
Brendan Falk
@srinitude Thanks so much Kiren!
Dipak Parmar
This is going to save my lot of time, from copy-pasting commands and changing its attributes! Love the notes app, easy to quickly navigate to snippet with docs, whooo!!! 🎉 Congrats @mattschrage @brendan_falk 🎉
Niel Schrage
this looks super cool! could transform the way I interact with the terminal.
Matt Schrage
@niel_schrage Haha thanks Niel :)
Aishwary Dhare
?makers Did you consider electron to build this, came across any limitation?
Brendan Falk
Hey @aishwary_dhare1 - we decided not to use Electron and opted to build it natively in swift for macOS instead. It's faster that way :)
Jorge Dardon
without windows support 👎🏻
Sohit Miglani
I'm getting this error when I try to sign up for early access: Error: Internal XMLHttpRequest Error
Brendan Falk
@sohitmiglani Very weird. One or two other people have had this. Try it in a different browser. And if that still doesn't work, here is the direct link to the Typeform it directs you to: https://withfig.typeform.com/to/...
Daniel Citron
Wow, this is awesome! this is going to save my team so much time, just what we needed!
Aishwary Dhare
OhMyZsh and iTerm have been making it easier for me. And what you have developed should be super helpful, its like a 'cherry on top'. Eagerly waiting to try it out :)