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> If you are serious about PCB design, you need to do things manually. this will not always be the case, you know. I hate that this blog post is effectively an HTML commercial for the product they are selling, but I have to admit that they are headed in the right direction. Prior to tools like KiCad, "serious" users did tapeout by hand. Prior to the transistor, "serious" electronic engineers used vacuum tubes.
Hey, founder here - we really value feedback from HN and I try to cut out all of the commercial aspects and just write something interesting. Do you have some feedback about what we could change about this article to make it less like a commercial?
I find it disingenuous every time I see it, because (while nothing is done to imply this) it reads, at first, like a genuine blog post someone wrote on a personal site.
we all read enough blog posts every day that the site hosting the blog can easily go unnoticed, and I feel like companies hope that "blog fatigue" will make the post look more spontaneous and genuine than it is.
I often forget that YCombinator is a greenhouse for companies to be fed and watered and pruned so they can become standalone entities out in the wild, and that this means that I'll be presented with blog posts about products from the product-makers themselves.