Compare prices on PCB fabrication and assembly - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: hek
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 17, 2018, 08:45:30 pm
content: Hi,I've been busy coding up a new service for finding the best prices on PCB assembly and manufacturing.Still beta and I will be adding more manufacturers the coming weeks. But the overall structure is ready for your feedback.https://www.openhardware.io/quoteSome features:Extracts dimensions/layers from uploaded gerbers and render fancy 3D view of your board if you're into that kind of p0rn.Keeps statistics. So we all can keep track of price trends. This will take a day to kick in as the graphs needs at least one day of history.Fast! Keeps daily caches previous similar queries during the day for instant response.Well, hope you find some quirks to report.

author: rea5245
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2018, 04:49:27 am
content: It's a very interesting looking site. I notice your web site lists "manufacturing partners". What is the nature of your relationship with those companies? Will you be including companies in your price comparison based on special deals with them?- Bob

author: hek
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 18, 2018, 09:09:19 am
content: Hi Bob,The openhardware.io site is a community for sharing open source hardware (spun of mysensors.org). When we started a couple of years ago we reached out to a couple of pro open source manufacturers to cooperate on giving something back to the project authors when someone orders their design. As we get a lot of electronics newbies, I also tried to ease the order process. This required a "deep" integration (basically we get "pinged" by the manufacturer when someone orders a design) to keep track of orders and commission.This has nothing to do with the our new page for pcb price comparison. It is and will contain companies we have no affiliation with.

author: rea5245
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2018, 03:26:36 pm
content: Are you familiar with my site, PCBShopper.com? It's a price comparison site too.- Bob

author: hek
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 18, 2018, 04:54:04 pm
content: Yes, it has been an inspiration and you have my deepest respect. I'm realising what you've gone through to pull prices from some of the weird manufacturer sites out there.

author: mrpackethead
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2018, 11:23:27 pm
content: Quote from: rea5245 on February 18, 2018, 04:49:27 amWhats your relationship with these people. I note lots of advertising on your website. I'm assumign its paid for?

author: rea5245
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2018, 11:35:25 pm
content: Quote from: mrpackethead on February 19, 2018, 11:23:27 pmYes, the ads are paid for, as are the "Go to Order Page" buttons in the price comparison list.But I do not accept payment for adding a company to the price comparison list. Nor do I let advertising influence me to add a company. You can see that there are several companies in the price list that do not have ads (and never have) and there are companies that have been buying ads (some for years) that are not in the price list.I decide which companies go in the price list based on how well known they are, whether they offer a price structure different from the companies already in the list, and/or whether their factory is in a part of the world that is not yet represented in the list.- Bob AlexanderPCBShopper.com

author: NorthGuy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 20, 2018, 12:03:38 am
content: Quote from: hek on February 17, 2018, 08:45:30 pmSince the price of single PCB goes down with the volume dramatically, you could make money by pre-printing PCBs for some most popular projects (in small quantities such as 100-300) then selling them from your Web site. People would get cheaper PCBs and faster shipping. You would get some profit.

author: hek
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 20, 2018, 07:27:01 am
content: Quote from: NorthGuy on February 20, 2018, 12:03:38 amYes, good idea. But we, as an loosely coupled group of individuals running the community on our free time have not possibility to stock or handle fulfillments. This is just a hobby for a few OSH enthusiasts. But I _think_ one of the manufacturers might might be stocking themost popular board. But it's really up to them to make those decisions.But once again, the new price comparison page isn't really related to the OSH list. The new page will contain more manufacturers and will mainly be used by our community members to find a manufacturer for their small batch prototypes. I also hope we can use it to see some price trends for the more advanced board specifications. The 100x100/2 layer boards already seems to have hit a rock bottom price. But will more advanced configuration follow this trend?

author: rea5245
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2018, 05:09:27 pm
content: Quote from: hek on February 18, 2018, 04:54:04 pmHowareyou getting their prices, anyway? When I do a query on your site, I don't see any web traffic to retrieve the prices.- Bob

author: hek
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 24, 2018, 05:33:11 pm
content: It's magicNo, I'm using websockets traffic. As the responses comes asynchronously, it was the easiest route.

author: noras
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 07:52:46 am
content: More than one platform for a choice,thanks

author: hek
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 08:17:55 am
content: What do you mean by platform?

author: noras
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 08:26:02 am
content: Like this price comparison already has a pcbshopper, but if more than one option for reference, for us better? likes pcb fabrication, the more competitive, the better for our engineers.