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Just mentioning for those interested, but dissuaded by the $949 design fee comments in this thread, SparkFun is providing a temporary discount: > To encourage
by davidkuhta 6y ago
Just mentioning for those interested, but dissuaded by the $949 design fee comments in this thread, SparkFun is providing a temporary discount:
> To encourage you to give ALC a try, we’re offering 50% off the design fee on all new orders through 11:59 p.m. on 12/31/2020 with promocode: ALCSPARKFUN50
Disclaimer: Not at all affiliated with SparkFun, but I'm a fan of fun with sparks (magic-smoke, !smokey-the-bear).
- 0xffff2 6y agoI'm really wondering who this is aimed at that a 50% discount would make any difference. As an individual hobbyist, this is a service that provides maybe $50-100 worth of value to me at most. If I was looking to start some kind of businesses in my garage, my very first priority in putting the business together would be making sure either I or a partner knew how to do this ourselves, so the value add would be ~$0. If I'm a cog in some big corporation, I can probably put $949 on a corporate credit card just as easily as $475.
- amelius 6y agoAlso, if you work for a big corporation, would you not prefer to design boards yourself? I'm wondering what the target audience really is ...
- true_religion 6y agoProbably researchers working with grant money, or people in corporate R&D with tight deadlines, but not so tight budgets. They also save you from having to learn how to actually design the board yourself, so if you don't know how to do that with modern tooling, then you can pay $1000 for someone else to do it per board, rather than hire someone out of your project budget to do it.