seddona

"there is a certain type of person who only works at their peak capacity when there is no predictable path to follow, the odds of success are low, and they have to take personal responsibility for failure (the opposite of most jobs at a large company)."

I have never really stopped to consider my own motivations for doing a startup but this sums it up. Do a startup because you have to, not because you want to.

We (circuithub.com) are hiring for Haskell roles in London. Open to folks with some functional experience, scalaz etc.

CircuitHub | https://circuithub.com/ | London UK or Boston US

CircuitHub is on a mission to fix rapid electronics prototyping. We are the first automated electronics factory built around a modern tech stack. We help hardware companies producing self driving cars, satellites, 3D printers, robotics, & more to rapidly prototype electronics and get to market faster.

Join our growing team to work on a variety of problems across CircuitHub's entire stack. No direct experience with factory automation or electronics is necessary but we like curious people willing to learn.

Our stack:

- Haskell API server using GHC 8, Yesod, Opaleye, and many other libraries from Hackage.

- Elm front end.

- PostgreSQL for data storage, with querying via Opaleye & Rel8.

- AWS / Heroku for hosting.

- NixOS for development environments, continuous integration and deployments.

- Functional reactive programming for standalone GUI applications.

- Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and instrumentation.

careers@circuithub.com

https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest - 8k stars

The backend for https://circuithub.com/ is mostly Haskell. We are a YC startup.

I know a bunch of startups building in Haskell, it's just not that obvious from a google search.

We use Elm inside Angular in production. On https://circuithub.com/projects/ti/TIDA-00230 most of the drawing is Elm.

Great work, would love to try this out but I'm not going to link my Facebook to a random app.

Big thanks for everything Garry, good luck in whatever comes next and enjoy the well earned rest!

CircuitHub co-founder here. Happy to answer any questions!

congrats Luke!

We use Yesod

Thanks for the overview Simon, great to hear about the use of Haskell at scale. At CircuitHub we use Haskell to build our entire web app, Haskell is great for most tasks these days.

Congrats guys, love the product!

We (https://circuithub.com, YC W2012) are offering special terms to YC co's but we might be able to help you out too. Drop us an email at support@circuithub.com :-)

On the electronics side we (https://circuithub.com/) have spent a lot of time on automation to bring US manufacturing costs inline with China.

I definitely agree with the premise of the OP, local manufacturing has a lot of benefits.

We use Elm in production. See the symbol / footprint diagrams on this page https://circuithub.com/projects/electricimp/janice

https://circuithub.com/ is close to having you covered on the library + manufacturing side. We're just missing symbol/footprint export (on the way).

Disclosure I am a co-founder of CircuitHub.

looks great Leo!

We are currently producing thousands of units for customers, but have yet to reach Apple scale.

Yes, not yet via the web interface. Please email support@circuithub.com . Thanks.

We use Dropbox to make it easy to upload minor changes to your design. Layervault explain this use case very well,

http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/66790684642/announcing-dro...

we need to do a better job of explaining why Dropbox is worthwhile.

Alternative upload options is something we definitely intend to address. For now you could check out some example projects on https://circuithub.com/explore

checkout https://circuithub.com/explore

Thanks, we started this due to the enormous amount of 'grunt' work involved in getting hardware into production. The essence is this;

You as a designer probably have a pretty loose spec for a 3.3V regulator, why not just have the factory tell you the one everybody else is using and better yet here's the symbol and footprint.

We were careful not to restrict people though, you can use any parts but we try and gently nudge you onto the more popular stuff!

Andrew, co-founder @ https://circuithub.com here.

Thanks for the support. I agree completely, really simple stuff is 'quite' well catered for already. Ultimately if your board is really basic and you only need one or two you can do it at home.

The problem is if you want to do something cutting edge or even mid-range it get's really expensive/complex. We're hoping to help with that.

I did this as a fun project a while back http://dittokey.com/ .

I open sourced the app:

https://github.com/andrewseddon/dittokey-iphone

and computer vision:

https://github.com/andrewseddon/keyify

No production ready, complete hack, but it does work. The vision side is an interesting problem. This was a while back and i was dealing with older cameras. I should imagine with modern phone cameras it's a pretty simple problem.

Can you mention the company? We're interested in using Haskell and I'm looking for reference experiences, particularly use in startups.

congrats Sam! Thanks for your help the last few months!

Awesome guys, congratulations. I struggle with hearing and i'm sure years of headphone abuse hasn't helped!

+1 for Bunnies blog.