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Hi HN! I’m Rahul, an engineer at Fig, and I led the development of Dotfiles.

Our goal was to build a structured editor[0] for shell dotfiles - with a keyboard-driven editing experience that is as fast as a traditional text editor, while offering more guidance.

We built this because in the process of onboarding users to autocomplete[1], we saw first-hand how much difficulty many developers have managing their shell configuration.

Once you get the hang of it, editing configuration files, like your .zshrc or .bashrc, unlocks a lot of powerful customization. However, there is a substantial learning curve.

When you manage your dotfiles using Fig, your development environment follows you across devices, operating systems and even between different shells. Any changes you make sync automatically. And, if you want, you can easily share your shell configuration - aliases, environment variables, scripts & more - across your entire team.

I’d love to hear what you think about this new approach to dotfiles! This is our first release, so there is definitely room to improve.

PS. Dotfiles is free for individual use and for open-source projects!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor [1] https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete

You can actually still make any of the previous technical animations using the current software. It's just that the outward pages are geared to demo the customer tutorial use case

Bitcoin demo - https://textframe.app/examples/bitcoin

CockroachDB demo - https://textframe.app/rahul/cockroachdb_serverless_demo

Haha I totally missed that. I’m so used to onboarding people via email/video calls.

One of my demo tutorials shows exactly how to embed!

https://textframe.app/embed_tutorial

what version of iOS/device are you on? My guess is I am using a browser API that is not supported by your version of Safari.

yes, the tutorials can be embedded! If you email me at [email protected] I can walk you through how to do it.

I have to agree with you, my outward facing pages look a bit unprofessional right now. I assume by the marketing page, you mean 'pricing' page?

I'm glad you pointed out the Loom use case. My whole angle was that I thought products are leaning too much into video, when text has some great advantages: skimming, scrolling, copy pasting, etc.

I see what you mean now. That's a really valuable insight. Will definitely think about this for my next iteration.

Thank you for the feedback!

When you say marketing tool, what sort of content do you have in mind?

Also, I do provide the ability to embed in your landing pages, the instructions are at the bottom of my landing page.

Do you have an example of one of these you have in mind? I'm not very familiar with user stories.

That's awesome to hear. Definitely get in touch with me over email, I'd love to discuss more with you.

Hi HN,

My name is Rahul Sarathy and I posted TextFrame a few months ago on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29234636) as a tool to create animated technical papers. After gathering feedback from the community, I found that the best use case for my tool was for creating tutorials.

I am proud to share my next iteration as a tool to create animated product tutorials. Hopefully you can find use in it to create more engaging tutorials for onboarding and helping out your users.

You can check out some examples I’ve created using the software: at https://textframe.app/examples

Please let me know what you think! You can also email me at [email protected] if you have any questions or just want to say hello

I wonder if Beeper (https://www.beeper.com) uses something like this to get you a macOS iMessage instance in the cloud. Was always curious how they could tout that seemingly impossible feature, but looks like this is a way to do it.

This makes this post make a lot more sense when you put it in that context.

Congrats to them on the round.

Ddin't think coin tracker was a big deal, but when I think about them as the Intuit for crypto, it makes a lot more sense.