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ggcdn
10y ago
In the blog section of IndieHackers he talks about this. Primarily HackerNews. It's a good read.
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ggcdn
10y ago
To be honest, I looked at flux's homepage and still don't know exactly what it does or how it would be integrated into the problem at hand.
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ggcdn
10y ago
There absolutely is a reason: seismic design. We end up doing a lot of data manipulation between the FEA stage and member design stage. Its not a distrust so much as a fundamental flaw. For simple gravity design it works fine, but even then
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10y ago
> Why should engineer pay you at all if they can use spreadsheet for free to do what you do with your SaaS? Why do businesses invest in new tech? Why pay for excel when I can use a pen and calculator? The answer is because it makes them
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10y ago
In my original post, I was more leaning towards member design software, such as spColumn and S-Concrete. These are much more standalone, and don't have many of the issues you listed. No one I know is using the automated concrete desig
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10y ago
Not sure. In the US there are about 281,400 civil engineers [1]. I couldn't find more detailed information on structural engineers. -Assume about 10% are practicing structural engineers who need to design concrete structures = 28140. -
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10y ago
As a structural engineer, I see a good opportunity to make reinforced concrete design software available in a SaaS format. The competition is outdated, clunky, requires local installation and messing about with licenses. Design firms are pa