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> The idea is that you can configure your developer environment in Fig and then we'll sync it across all of your devices.

What's Fig's target audience? Developers.

Developers have been using a tried and tested way to keep configurations for decades -- dotfiles. We sync them across all our devices using git (or any of a thousand other ways). This is a solved problem and doesn't require email addresses or logins.

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> Developers have been using a tried and tested way to keep configurations for decades -- dotfiles

Which kinda sucks

There is certainly some room for improvement! :)

symlink dropbox used to be a solid way to do it, but that was before dropbox had to perform for the public markets every quarter

Currently, lots of developers use GitHub (which naturally requires a login) to sync their dotfiles across devices.

We are building our own version of this, that is more tailored to the use case than a generic git repo interface. :)

git controls versions and is open-source

you’re building a proprietary solution for something that isn’t a problem at all

why don't you give this company a chance? I am sure there is room for innovation even if it's non oss it's fine along it's something new.

I'd like to see what kind of innovation they can bring to dotfile management.

I keep most of my important dotfile configuration in a private repo managed by stow/syncthing, but the management gets old after a while and the git commit -am "update" gets old after a while..

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