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seddona — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:46:19 +0000

The Grid is basically a big parts logistics system, no feeders to load.

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seddona — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:45:04 +0000

Nice!

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seddona — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:57:34 +0000

Correct.

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seddona — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:52:40 +0000

Yeah we don't quote designs setup for JLC very well at the moment. We'll get there.

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seddona — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:27:26 +0000

Yes we have benchmarked this extensively it's 8 to 14 days, median about 10 with long tail being weeks due to customs issues. The unpredictability is a huge problem for critical projects.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:45:30 +0000

Sorry about that, we went viral in various places this week and demand has been through the roof. We are working round the clock to get more capacity online.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:43:10 +0000

Ah thanks!

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:42:49 +0000

This guy gets it :-)

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:41:59 +0000

We work with many of the worlds largest companies, speak to our account management team for custom contracts and such. We also support Gerbers, ODB++ and IPC-2581 if you like, the flow is just a little less slick.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:39:34 +0000

Love those guys. Happy customer also.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:39:18 +0000

Broadly speaking, there's a western supply chain and a china supply chain, lots of like for like MCU's and such in each. The western parts supply chains are actually pretty robust and built over many years so you don't hear much about them.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:36:25 +0000

I hear you. We need more locations. I'm hoping we can do a bit better than ground actually as drone delivery comes online.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:34:41 +0000

Yeah Europe needs this capability too, we have offices in Europe so you can probably guess where this is going :-)

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:32:14 +0000

Yeah working on expanding the options here :-)

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:31:28 +0000

Understandable concerns. We don't call out competitors specifically but you can probably guess who we are benchmarking against. I did the one we describe in the blog post myself with our toughest competitor in Shenzhen, it's real I assure you.

I've run hundreds of low volume orders on conventional lines, it's death by a thousand cuts, tough to describe exactly why until you do it.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:26:10 +0000

We have hundreds of thousands of parts in stock ready to go on The Grid. It's actually way more integrated than JLC.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:25:06 +0000

China is super impressive for sure. I agree the existing domestic options are not great and we founded CircuitHub to fix that :-)

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:23:35 +0000

eish sorry about the bad experience here. If you could drop a note to support@circuithub.com we'll get you fixed up.

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:22:12 +0000

Yeah mostly we just haven't got around to it as the burning fire is always increasing capacity vs demand. Defo agree we should not require login though!

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seddona — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:21:12 +0000

Thanks, that sounds like an interesting project! We are starting to see a few AI designed boards flow in and we're working on some guidelines, should be coming soon!