Show HN: Inventhub – Electronics product design collaboration platform
Hello,<p>I am Usama, Founder &amp; 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 PCB design projects and allow early collaboration on the data of those projects.<p>Its been a year since I have posted an early version of Inventhub here on HackerNews (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22476514" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22476514</a>) with just a visual version control and couple of ideas. Over the year, we were able to work with hardware developers and electronics product teams to get feedback, improve product and add new features.<p>We just recently launched a completely revamped product with a new website. Inventhub started as a git based version control with utilities to visualize ecad design and changes (diffs) in the web.<p>In our new release we introduced a complete electronics product design data management and collaboration to enable true collaboration on PCB design projects. Tools and their benefits include:<p>* Visualization and Discussions on PCB Documents: The design view of a pcb document on the platform helps in bringing a shared understanding where everyone has access to view, discuss and understand the document and its data. Inventhub supports visualization on formats such as Altium Designer, EagleCad, KiCad (more coming soon)<p>* Git based version control and tools: Having one database is a single source of truth which allows everyone to work from the same single database that is updated with every change from everyone who has access to it. All data is accessible in a centralized and secure cloud space. The information is visible to everyone instantly with its history.<p>* Access controls and sharing engineering data: Inventhub wants to help make it easy for the reusability of documents with multiple stakeholders. Organization access controls on the platform enable team based collaboration and sharing the latest version of the document and having access controls on top of it helps in early communication.<p>* Release management and Manufacturer Space: Easily Create, Manage and share a release by marking a point in history of a version controlled project. A manufacturer space is provided in addition for accessibility of project and design data. This helps to communicate production details easily to external stakeholders.<p>* Bill of Materials: Smart BOM brings a design-to-cost development approach. Create, edit and keep your bill of materials updated with every change in your project. With smart supply chain integration, find prices, generate cost estimates, get parts availability all in one place. This synchronized integration lets your team use the right parts and enable your procurement team to have up-to-date information at every stage.<p>* Components Library Manager: Inventhub wants to make it easy to manage components libraries and their life-cycle in centralized cloud storage. This gives teams and organizations easy access to trusted reusable assets and adding supply chain integration on top gives designers and procurement teams to see real-time&#x2F;up-to-date component life-cycle data, pricing and availability.<p>I would really appreciate if you guys can look at the new website along with new product features and provide us with your feedback. We are keen to hear what do you guys think about the product now?