One of the companies I've admired most through the years. Congrats!
Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium
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#12Not a user of Octopart, but a fan of them and their story ... congrats to them!
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#13Has Octopart given interviews regarding their technical infrastructure? Everything on their site is very fast and performant. The autocomplete on the homepage is excellent. And the filtering done via the sidebar post-search handles a high-level of complexity quite well.
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#14Has Octopart given interviews regarding their technical infrastructure? Everything on their site is very fast and performant. The autocomplete on the homepage is excellent. And the filtering done via the sidebar post-search handles a high-level of complexity quite well.
See if you can find some job listings. I think they had a few and you can glean the stack from the languages they are looking for. ;)
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#15Congrats Sam and team! One of the most helpful founders I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
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#16Octopart's founders in Newsweek in 2007, under the title "Meet the Next Billionaires": http://docs.octopart.com/newsweek_octopart_small.jpg
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#17Awesome, congrats on seeing it through 8 "short" years. PG spoke highly of you as being benevolent so I wonder about your progress!
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#18IIRC Octopart was a part of one of the 2007 batches. Congrats on staying with it! Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html > When we first met the founders of Octopart, they seemed very smart, but not a great bet to succeed, because they didn't seem especially committed. One of the two founders was still in grad school. It was the usual story: he'd drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off. Since then…
Following that archive.org link is really incredible. To be able to go back to the first day this site was launched and click around like I'm viewing today's site; just amazing.
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#19IIRC Octopart was a part of one of the 2007 batches. Congrats on staying with it! Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html > When we first met the founders of Octopart, they seemed very smart, but not a great bet to succeed, because they didn't seem especially committed. One of the two founders was still in grad school. It was the usual story: he'd drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off. Since then…
From start to finish. Interesting to see the whole picture. They made it, too. :)
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#20Octopart took forward what Tandy and Radio Shack couldn't... Congratulations Octopart!