usamaabid

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by usamaabid 6y ago
Definitely, we are leaning towards gerber support with gerber generator, sharing and viewing in web. With regards to HLS like language, our next step over the year will be creating a universal and open format parser to translate designs bac
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Thank you for trying out and sharing your feedback. Your kind words and appreciation means a lot. a) This makes sense, definitely a hover/show file name button should be there to facilitate with the complete name. I have added this to
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Sure, you can email me at usama@inventhub.io
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Hi Bob, Thank you! Do checkout and share your feedback.
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Thanks for looking into it and sharing your notes. I am glad you see the value and understand its need. Definitely, the recurring revenue is the starting point, we are in process of integrating with supply chain (basic integration is alread
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Thank you! we love your product too and have been following along. We definitely are building rule checker with our feature custom rule checking and DRC checker on two levels. The first level is to be implemented on every design update uplo
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Thank you! Definitely, Altium is a very capable tool for electronics design. I totally agree the features like commenting, BOMs, component library is in Altium 365. With regards to differentiator, first being we support same tools and utili
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Hi, Thank you for reviewing and giving such valuable feedback. I am glad you feel this way about the space. With regards to IP, we definitely ran into this concern couple of times. To address this we are in the process of getting SOC 2 Secu
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by usamaabid 6y ago
Hello, I am Usama, Founder & CEO of inventhub.io, a platform for securely managing and collaborating on electronics design data, is excited to announce a set of tools which provide an improved way for hardware companies to manage their
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Also, we will definitely commit to what I said we believe as company in our terms of service. As I have said we are in process to update them with more clarity.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Thanks Animats. Being part of the industry I understand the importance of these policies and how much it can hurt a developer. We are working hard to improve the terms and bring more clarity in them. I would love to chat with you to get you
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by usamaabid 7y ago
We have a preset names on the annotation/designs or other feature it is just a coincidence that your name is in the preset.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Yes, it's great to see others doing the same work. The more the merrier, it's a huge industry and we need more hands to solve this problem.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
That's the magical part! We implement visual diff on the native design itself to make sure you get the most accurate diffs on your projects.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Thank you for highlighting this. We are working to improve the language of the terms to make sure we help protect the the designs/trade secrets. Just to put it out as a company this is how we see the obligation to protect trade secrets
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by usamaabid 7y ago
The project would have been great. Because this one of the biggest struggle initially.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Agreed and yes its good to state it more clearly. I wasn’t able to find any best resources of ToS. The best option was adapting these ToS covered under CC licenses.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
No problem :) Thank you for taking out time for looking at product and asking such questions. Thanks for your kind wishes. We will make sure to provide you support and new features that you’ll switch to Inventhub.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Hi Kyle, Thanks for the appreciation. I would love to connect with you to talk more. Sending the PM.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
I have forwarded it to the development team to be added asap.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
>Do you have any theories as to why more companies don't choose KiCAD or other open tool in lieu of Altium? It seems to me there is a lot KiCAD can do, and there's very little Altium does that KiCAD does not. Do you choose to s
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Thank you :) Do try the product and share your feedback or any feature request you have.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
I agree with what John said and I have responded to his comment. These kind of terms should definitely be highlighted. I apologize that we adapted this term in our User Agreement and it was a mistake. I will make sure we fix it. I would als
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Hi John, I totally agree and we are inline with the mission of protecting open source projects and helping design owners maintain copyright ownership. We are even exploring avenues to work with industry leaders and lawyers to develop new op
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by usamaabid 7y ago
Have you tried InventHub though?
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by usamaabid 7y ago
> This is a great space to be working on - I've wanted tools like this as a HW engineer for a long time. Enabling remote work as an EE seems like a powerful advantage to grant to EE contractors Definitely its has been a huge need an
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by usamaabid 7y ago
I am glad you liked it. Do try and share your feedback. Yes we totally missed this aspect while focusing on to develop fast experience with conversion of designs and rendering.
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by usamaabid 7y ago
My pleasure :) Great I will try it with GitHub. No worries I can understand. >It's interesting to think about how to make BOM parsing a more universal solution. Some things I do for Kitspace definitely don't scale. Embedding a
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by usamaabid 7y ago
One of the open source python project helped us in understanding the format for schematic from there onwards we explored the layout files. Hopefully we will have something functional soon. In long term I see partnering up with Altium, will

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