Hello. I'm Usama, a two-time startup founder. Previously, I founded DIY Geeks in my home country, developing maker kits locally and creating a community of mak

Hello. I'm Usama, a two-time startup founder. Previously, I founded DIY Geeks in my home country, developing maker kits locally and creating a community of makers from the ground up. However, for the past year now, I've been working on InventHub. It is essentially a visual version control platform with a focus on real time collaboration for electronics development. For most of my adult life, I've either been building a hardware product or helping others build their product. From what I've seen, time and time again, most people run into the same challenges: Time-consuming research: finding parts/data-sheets, reference designs for components in consideration, and running into issues someone else already ran into but just to find the possible solution after hours of searching the internet. No effective way to collaborate: most time is wasted in sync meetings, writing reports and discussing changes...all hard to do remotely. Continuous hassle: saving files for each iteration and naming them, etc. and then sharing screenshots in reports as to what has changed. And so, I thought to make a process oriented product just like GitHub with the following two goals: Build a connected community of hardware developers and give them a space to share and collaborate on hardware projects, which in turn will be a vast collection of hardware designs, increasing discovery and reusability while making resources accessible to everyone at one place. Make a more effective process of collaboration for engineering teams - one that allows them to focus more on product and to enable effective remote team management, revision management, issue tracking and document generation without juggling through multiple platforms. The product features I have set out to build are: Visual Version Control for better collaboration among engineering teams, with an ability to view design files in browser, visual diffing, visual annotations, and chiefly, maintain accurate revisions. Library Management tool to help teams view, diff and manage revisions of symbols and footprints. Automated BOM generator that can detect parts in a project and give you a cost estimation of how much the parts will cost. Automated design rule checks to help with industry compliance. Gerber Generator - For generating gerbers in compliance with the drill specs of your prefered fabrication facility and get estimates. A connected marketplace of manufacturers so the developers can get cost estimation for different batch sizes and place order right from the platform. We just came out of private beta and we are now in public beta. I am actively looking for feedback on the product. Currently we have built the first feature from the list above and we will release features 2 through 5 within the next two months. It would be great if you could try out the product and share your feedback to help us improve the platform; if you could add to these ideas regarding product features, it would help us prioritize features in development and we would be especially grateful.