market

what is fiug (not)?

A cloud service you don’t have to register for.
The editor / IDE you didn’t have to install.
A tool that could change the way you work.

Introduction

• fiug does(will do) things that other things do.
• Consequently, one may think fiug IS one of those things.
• Possibly, fiug can be used as one of those things.
• However, it may not be that thing and that is not the sole vision for it.
• Consider the following an exploration of what fiug is and will be.

TL;DR

• fiug takes inspiration from all of the following in some regard
• fiug will most likely not do any one of these things as well as any one of these do

Sidenote

• some of the following applies less to “fiug” and more to “bartok” a service composer and backend for fiug
• bartok is currently lower priority than fiug in terms of development attention

Fiug IS (NOT)

Editor / IDE

• modify and manage files sometimes with other integrations/features
• examples
  • vscode
  • sublime
  • Eclipse Theia
  • Light Table
  • atom
  • brackets RIP

Editor Extension

• feature addon for another editor
• examples
  • codeswing

Playground / Code Runner / IDE

• online editor and web-based code share/run
• wiki source code playgrounds
• examples
  • jsfiddle
  • plunker
  • codepen
  • stackblitz
  • runkit
  • replit
  • glitch
  • observables
  • iodide.io
  • jupyter notebook hosts
  • codeframe
  • slingcode
  • codefence
  • tio
  • riju
  • playcode.io

Nocode platform / Multiexperience Development Platforms (MXDP)

• examples
  • outsystems
  • webflow
  • airtable
  • bubble.io
  • kintone

Mindmap / Knowledge Management Tool / Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

• examples
  • dendron
  • roam
  • athens
  • foam
  • vs code memo
  • obsidian
  • logseq

Code Analytics / Code Map

• examples
  • CodeSee

Continuous Integration Tool

• code, build, deployment automation
• examples: jenkins, teamCity, bamboo, circleCI, travisCI

ALM

• application lifecycle management
• examples: many solutions all mostly unknown; difficult to find good examples by name

APM

• application performance management
• examples: weavescope, splunk, datadog, kubernetes dashboard, ELK/EFK/Kibana

XaaS

X as a service

• SaaS
  • software as a service
  • examples: Google Apps, Dropbox, Salesforce, Cisco WebEx, Concur, GoToMeeting
• PaaS
  • platform as a service
  • examples: Azure, Heroku, Google App Engine, Stratos, OpenShift
• FaaS
  • functions as a service
  • examples: Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, IBM Cloud Functions
• IaaS
  • infrastructure as a service
  • examples: DigitalOcean, Linode, Rackspace, AWS, Azure, Google Compute Engine
• CaaS
  • containers as a service (containers and orchestration)
  • examples: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos

References

• what is kubernetes
• cloud architecture saas faas xaas
• paas and caas in 15 minutes

thoughts about who a fiug customer is

• new to programming
• average dev tired of BS
  • having to install to get started
  • mess of services spread all over the place
• creative type that wants to make music, games, or art
• blogger, note keeper, mind mapper
• presentation giver, conference speaker
• cloud dev ops
• teams or team builders that want it to be easy for any/all of the above

models for marketing

• promlens - I enjoy both the look-and-feel of marketing AND the product itself

editors / IDEs

comparison of web editors

Sublime Text

Atom

Brackets

VS Code

Webstorm

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