zakhomuth

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by zakhomuth 9y ago
Thanks!
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by zakhomuth 9y ago
No, not yet. We surveyed a bunch of Kicad users and most weren't willing to pay for parts so we moved Cadence support ahead of them.
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by zakhomuth 9y ago
At Upverter we’ve been working on a new product we call EE Concierge. We make and verify symbols, footprints, and 3D models for electrical components on-demand. We started doing this inside Upverter about 2 years ago. But with EE Concierge
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Show HN: EE Concierge – Custom Hardware Parts On-Demand(eeconcierge.com)
12 points by zakhomuth 9y ago|6 comments
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by zakhomuth 10y ago
Ok, thanks!
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by zakhomuth 10y ago
Regarding a parts concierge for Kicad / Eagle. We've built this for Altium, you can see it here: https://upverter.com/features/concierge-altium/ We hadn't planned on supporting either KiCad or Eagle
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by zakhomuth 10y ago
Sorry for the rough edges - we care very deeply about our UI and spend a lot of our time trying to make this stuff better. If you ever want to send me an email about UI weirdness in Upverter Im happy to share your feedback with the team her
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by zakhomuth 10y ago
Great work Chris! Looks awesome.
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Upverter is hiring Hardware Engineers
1 points by zakhomuth 11y ago
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by zakhomuth 12y ago
We totally understand that fear. This is our approach to solving it: https://github.com/upverter/schematic-file-converter
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by zakhomuth 12y ago
See here: https://github.com/upverter/schematic-file-converter
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by zakhomuth 12y ago
Altium costs about $10K per user. I'd expect the upgrades to be on par with that.
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by zakhomuth 12y ago
Yes - The default is to stroe your data in the cloud. But you can always download all of your designs in an open well documented json format.
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by zakhomuth 12y ago
Most of what you're asking for exists in Upverter. * Our default account is free & open-source. * We've made UX a huge priority * We've got the largest and most complete component library in the world * We have an open so
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by zakhomuth 12y ago
Zak from Upverter here - You're right! But we've got a newer version of this converter project that we are cleaning up right now. Its also able to do Altium, Cadence, and their libraries. Coming soon!
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Upverter (YC W11) Is Hiring a Success Engineer(upverter.com)
1 points by zakhomuth 12y ago
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by zakhomuth 13y ago
Its a babystep compared to whats needed, but we're trying to rethink EDA at upverter.com. Its a full editor thats also collaborative with lots of community features. It might be what you're looking for.
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Hardware Hackathon with Facebook Open Compute and Upverter(blog.upverter.com)
19 points by zakhomuth 14y ago|0 comments
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Thats a really cool idea. Similarily, we have been toying with the idea of auto-complete. Ie: You add a couple parts that we've seen connected before, you start to connect them in the same way, we recommend a way to hook them all up. Also w
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Mostly handbaked into the app. As for payments, were processing in Canada using BeanStream. We open sourced our implementation here: https://github.com/upverter/beanstream
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Its a possibility. We have privacy by user request and were charing money for it, not least of all, because we want to encourage public designs.
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Agree with you on the pricing, its a hard one. Lets chat sometime! Were totally on the same wavelength. We are actually working on a transcriber ( https://github.com/upverter/schematic-file-converter ), dropbox integration. And behind the s
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Zak from upverter again... Our HDL support is non-existant right now. We do have an open file format which can be created from or parsed to HDL. Do you work in HDL right now? I'd love to chat about this with you sometime - we come from the
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Hey Chuck, Im one of the founders at Upverter. We based the pricing on our pilot users, and what they were willing to spend to be able to collaborate. We would love to chat if there is a different price you are willing to pay! And for what
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
The parts library is already integrated with the Octopart API.
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Hey rcfox, Zak from Upverter here. We are planning to release import/export and an open file format by the end of the month. We have altium, eagle, kicad and geda converters in the works too!
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Hey bradfa, Zak from upverter here. We hear you! Layout will be one of the next things we launch (we are working on it right now, hopefully just a few months away). The hope is to also add a "print button" to connect users designs with rapi
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by zakhomuth 15y ago
Hey patrickyeon, its Zak one of the Upverter founders. Thanks for the comment. We just pushed a major update publicly yesterday that had some incredible performance gains (50 - 100x faster). We have also done a bunch of selective rendering
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by zakhomuth 16y ago
Very cool product!