Show HN: Electronics Hobbyists – Feedback on Search Startup
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#2Early demo but any thoughts on this? good or bad. All suggestions appreciated.
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#3It runs super fast on mobile. The UI feels a bit lacking and unfinished.
Keep up the good work
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#4At first glance it seems like a more visually friendly version of a digikey/jameco style parts interface. In order to be comparable however you need to have more categories of information per part to help sort them. That might go against the design feel, but from a normal workflow on digikey/jameco, I'm personally very used to finding the general category and iteratively adding more constraints until a few parts are left.
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#5I sent this link to some of our colleagues at Altadox. They have been using it all day so its good.
150 results is too small. better than element14, digikey
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#6Check out Octopart for an example of this concept done right.
To differentiate, need to work on discoverability/browseability. When I click on connectors, viewing a list of the first 150 of 490K items is not useful in any way.
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#7Check out Octopart for an example of this concept done right. To differentiate, need to work on discoverability/browseability. When I click on connectors, viewing a list of the first 150 of 490K items is not useful in any way.
thank you eatenbyagrue. We have faceting as an input on every column for those 490k items. As with every category (like an autocomplete). As well as complete parametric search capabilities.
I looked through the logs to see your actions. You were on the site for less than 80 seconds. Did not use search or attempt to facet from the columns. Only accessed 2 category pages and then exited.
So my thoughts... do you have javascript disabled or was the faceting not visible/clear?
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#8Check out Octopart for an example of this concept done right. To differentiate, need to work on discoverability/browseability. When I click on connectors, viewing a list of the first 150 of 490K items is not useful in any way.
I think it’s just personal preference. For me it has several wins over octopart and I got the input filtering which is really cool. Really neat man. Shame it’s all single search at a time.
Re: Show HN: Electronics Hobbyists – Feedback on Search Startup
#9Check out Octopart for an example of this concept done right. To differentiate, need to work on discoverability/browseability. When I click on connectors, viewing a list of the first 150 of 490K items is not useful in any way.
I think it’s just personal preference. For me it has several wins over octopart and I got the input filtering which is really cool. Really neat man. Shame it’s all single search at a time.
thanks boardguy. multisearch is something we may look at in the near future.
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#10I tried to reply to this on eda board but not enough privileges so I'll do it here.
It's similar to Octopart but with free typing for filtering which is great. Thumbs up for the interface. Thumbs up for content. The interesting bit is that Octopart integrates the availability and pricing buy you dont. It is more like a pure part selection which connects to 3rd part sites for the inventory. Overall I would say for data it looks like the best site out there. Comprehensive. Hands down the winner. Parametric fields and one click files are just perfect. For ordering I would say it's a pain in the behind. No one, and I mean no one can order their parts list by searching separately for each part. You really need to rethink that