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He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.

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).

The blog post reads like an acqui-hire, which almost always means the product gets shut down or open sourced and left for dead.

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.

or at least become more annoyingly entangled with stuff, like Minecraft + Microsoft

Days since AWS last announced they were killing a devtool service: 4

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198)

> 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.

It means they're abandoning the product IME

If they aren't making money directly off Fig, they're integrating it somehow.

Except people just hearing about Fig now can't sign up.

Yeah 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.

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.

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