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How did a startup with such an obvious idea get started in 2020?

Was some API added to Mac recently that made it possible? Has the software market gotten large enough to support more niche products? Or just no one did it before?

I find it positive, comforting even; it suggests that the space of viable startup ideas is really vast.

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I honestly feel the same way. Once you use Fig, it feels like such an obvious idea. It didn't require new APIs or anything like that.

As far as I can tell, no one tried it because to 10x the existing shell experience requires working across multiple layers of stack. You need integrations with the shell, the terminal emulator and the OS -- in addition, to mapping the structure of a bunch of CLI tools.

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