CircuitHub (YC W12) Aims To Be A One-Stop Shop For Electrical Parts

Post by benjamind » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

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What would it take to make a footprint database you can trust? I would imagine that community ranking/flagging of content could surely clean up inconsistent or invalid designs making the database more reliable. Would approved manufacturer accounts that contained all the parts from a manufacturer make them more trustworthy?

To your second paragraph, 100% yes :)

Post by benjamind » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 11:41 PM UTC

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Well lets hope that the CircuitHub team can get the traction they need to get the attention of the big manufacturers then. There's certainly a chicken and the egg problem happening with this kind of innovation right now. I know for a fact that there are many people at the large manufacturers that know that symbol and footprint library management is a major headache. They all want a good solution to the problem, but n…

Hi Ben, I hope your well. Ideally we would like manufacturers to setup their own accounts and approve their own lib's, that would be a big win for users. Basically i think this problem has slipped between the cracks, the semi co's, engineers, EMS houses, EDA vendors etc all palm it off to each other!

Post by marshray » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 6:39 AM UTC

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From a guy who surfs for electronic parts on a tablet while falling asleep at nights. Most vendor sites get painfully slow for this. First impressions: The pop-over splash screen makes me want to reach for the 'close tab' button reflexively. If it's "the worlds fast free univeral parts library" I expect to see some part pr0n right when I pull up the site. I don't want to click [microscopic white-on-gray X] to close t…

Hi from Jonathan (cofounder). Thanks for the awesome detailed feedback. We hear you and are already working on (or have it on the near-term roadmap) almost all of this. I apologize for any frustration thus far. I really do. Perhaps this will help until then: (1) You can click anywhere that isn't the splash screen (any dark area) to dismiss it. (2) You can jump straight to parts by URL https://circuithub.com/parts or…

Post by marshray » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 11:21 PM UTC

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No apology needed. Just keep doing cool stuff and I'll check back from time to time.

Thank you! I hope you will. Things are moving really quickly internally. In other news, we fixed the splash screen. It now permanently dismisses so you shouldn't see it too often. That was our intention we just didn't quite get it right the first time ;-)