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by collabtwy532 1628 days ago
Great idea for a thread! I have two interests for a collaboration.

Interest 1) Study buddies to exchange domain knowledge between web App Design and Hardware Engineering.

Basic idea: We teach each other stuff from our area of expertise. While you one learn a lot these days from books and Youtube and online tutorials, there is no substitute to asking an expert and getting unblocked quickly.

Me: Electrical Engineer who has years of experience designing consumer and aerospace electronics. I am on a journey to learn more about Web App development and what it takes to build a successful SaaS app in 2022. Some tech that I am looking to learn the basics of : HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node, React, Django, WebAssembly.

You: You know your way around full stack web development, and you are looking to learn about hardware engineering. Posts like below resonate with you. I would like to be study buddies with an individual like that :) My email is in the about section.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743894

- https://blog.athrunen.dev/learning-hardware-programming-as-a...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037791

- https://contextualelectronics.com/course-types/

Interest 2) Offline first collaboration tools in the electronic CAD tool space.

CRDT technology has been growing fast recently. I am interested in applying the principles of offline-first software and CRDTs to new tools in the electronic CAD tool space (think: tools used to design circuit boards). If any devs are looking to get their hands dirty with applying CRDTs to real world problems, would love to chat. Thinking of contributing to open source tooling in the electronic CAD tool space. I also think there is a market to support an open-core SaaS here.