Hey everyone,
Fun fact first: I just checked the date I joined All About Circuits: Jul 8, 2008!
This is mind blowing for me. Time flies! I remember printing (yes, paper format) a lot of AAC content/exercises to learn more and more about electronics.
I used to work as an hardware and embedded software engineer until a few years ago. I created a small business offering electronics development services but decided to give software and web dev a try while creating a small software utility to help me managing my inventory. From there I shifted I'd say 100% to software and web dev and that's kind of what brings me here today.
I just released a new version of BOMIST: <Mod: deleted link> (the software I initially created to help keeping my inventory on track)
I started coding it in C++/Qt (because, you know, C/C++ is what electronics people know the best) but soon this MVP became increasingly hard to maintain and to add new features - and often requested features. That's why I decided to re-write it, which took me roughly 1yr, and why I'm sharing the result now with you.
BOMIST is now cross-platform and I'd say the FREE plan is quite generous:
* you can manage parts, BOMs, purchasing, storage locations
* local database (you can use it offline and sync with other computers if you put it on a Dropbox folder for ex - there's also a (paid) plan for teams to collaborate on the same workspace)
* you can attach as many documents as you want to everything
* export every table into CSV, JSON, HTML or PDF
* write notes in markdown
* (and probably a few more things...)
Would love to know what you think. Questions and suggestions are all very welcome!
Fun fact first: I just checked the date I joined All About Circuits: Jul 8, 2008!
This is mind blowing for me. Time flies! I remember printing (yes, paper format) a lot of AAC content/exercises to learn more and more about electronics.
I used to work as an hardware and embedded software engineer until a few years ago. I created a small business offering electronics development services but decided to give software and web dev a try while creating a small software utility to help me managing my inventory. From there I shifted I'd say 100% to software and web dev and that's kind of what brings me here today.
I just released a new version of BOMIST: <Mod: deleted link> (the software I initially created to help keeping my inventory on track)
I started coding it in C++/Qt (because, you know, C/C++ is what electronics people know the best) but soon this MVP became increasingly hard to maintain and to add new features - and often requested features. That's why I decided to re-write it, which took me roughly 1yr, and why I'm sharing the result now with you.
BOMIST is now cross-platform and I'd say the FREE plan is quite generous:
* you can manage parts, BOMs, purchasing, storage locations
* local database (you can use it offline and sync with other computers if you put it on a Dropbox folder for ex - there's also a (paid) plan for teams to collaborate on the same workspace)
* you can attach as many documents as you want to everything
* export every table into CSV, JSON, HTML or PDF
* write notes in markdown
* (and probably a few more things...)
Would love to know what you think. Questions and suggestions are all very welcome!
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