Hey HN! I'm Matt Schrage, one of the cofounders of Fig.<p>We were planning on launching on HN later on, so this caught us a bit off guard. (As someone noted, our 'Fig' icon is, in fact, an emoji pear). Still we're super excited to share what we've been working on.<p>Fig lets you connect web apps directly to your terminal. You can use Fig like a browser to get quick access to sites like Github, Stack Overflow, or Notion. You can also run apps built on the Fig.js runtime that integrate directly with your terminal. We want to be a low-cost abstraction. Use a Fig app when it's useful, drop back down to the shell when it's not.<p>I just wanted to respond to a couple of points.<p>The app is actually written in Swift: we're using a WKWebView under the hood but the majority of the codebase is native. Also because we aren't built on Electron, we don't need to bundle v8 and node along with the app, so the binary is pretty small (12mb).<p>Fig is extensible. The apps shown on the website (git, curl, and finder) are just a few examples of what is possible. You can check out the documentation at <a href="https://withfig.com/docs" rel="nofollow">https://withfig.com/docs</a> and build your own.<p>Fig works with the tools you already use - we integrate with any terminal emulator (iTerm, Terminal.app, Hyper, Alactritty, etc.). Previous attempts at building GUI terminals have required throwing away 50 years worth of tooling and transitioning to a new application entirely. Fig is built around the premise that in order to upgrade the terminal, <i>changes must be backwards compatible</i>.<p>Happy to answer any more questions and really appreciate the feedback we've gotten so far.