Part ordering is time consuming and annoying, and the pricing in low volumes (typical for development work or upstart products) is really awful (high, and large

Part ordering is time consuming and annoying, and the pricing in low volumes (typical for development work or upstart products) is really awful (high, and large disparities between suppliers). We created http://sandsquid.com http://sandsquid.com for making it easier to purchase components online (especially at the early stage of the product life cycle) while still maintaining reasonable pricing and an ability to easily scale up the orders as needed. Sandsquid was born out of our own need, manufacturing USB test jigs for a customer of our consulting business (we then made it as a bunch of scripts, but then decided it's too good to keep for ourselves). We just couldn't come to terms with the amount of effort it takes to order parts for a moderately complicated PCB.