Obligatory HN "co-creator of OpenPCR here, glad to see all the comments". Appreciate your work, Joshua, and others like you! I helped launch OpenPCR nearly a

Obligatory HN "co-creator of OpenPCR here, glad to see all the comments". Appreciate your work, Joshua, and others like you! I helped launch OpenPCR nearly a decade ago on the belief that cutting edge technology needed to be in the hands of people, specifically in biotech through equipment like OpenPCR, and community labs like BioCurious [0], both of which have flourished over the last decade. One proof of successful "open sourcyness" is if the code/designs gets replicated by others. To that end, I've been inspired by NinjaPCR [1] by Shingo Hisakawa in Tokyo is one such effort that used OpenPCR design files directly and is still under development. There's also Wild OpenPCR [2] created as an experiment, and I believe Bethan Wolfenden from Bento Bio [3] said OpenPCR was some of the inspiration tho perhaps not at the source level. Oh and for anyone curious about how the discussion has changed 9 years later, here's OpenPCR's launch on HN on July 7, 2011 [4] [0] https://biocurious.org https://biocurious.org [1] https://www.makery.info/en/2020/04/09/covid-19-au-japon-le-ninja-qpcr-pour-tester-en-temps-reel/ https://www.makery.info/en/2020/04/09/covid-19-au-japon-le-n... [2] https://hackteria.org/wiki/Wild_OpenPCR https://hackteria.org/wiki/Wild_OpenPCR [3] https://www.bento.bio https://www.bento.bio [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2736776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2736776