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Octopart releases free API for developers

73 pointsby andresover 15 years ago

5 comments

andresover 15 years ago
Some background - We think that hackers with hardware experience are the best people to build engineering design tools. Unfortunately, it's quite difficult to get startup capital for design tools so there hasn't been much innovation in the space. The end result is that only large well funded companies have had the resources to build design tools. We hope that by sharing revenue generated by the API, we can democratize design software by enabling hackers of all stripes to build new tools.
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tlbover 15 years ago
This looks great! I'm already imagining some quick Python scripts I want to write to help automate component selection
natemartinover 15 years ago
This looks fantastic. This could actually work well with a project I've had floating around in my head for a while.... I better get going on it!
blackguardxover 15 years ago
Is there any guarantee on the accuracy of this information? I've run into wrong technical info numerous times, even on datasheets themselves.<p>Is this info scraped from datasheets or is it just entered into the database by hand?
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leejover 15 years ago
your search engine is very quick and thinking that you're doing faceted search it's incredible. do you use sphinx, lucene or custom search engine implementation?
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