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by liminalsunset 818 days ago
Even after seeing this comment, I thought it was a CAD plugin as well.

I think the main thing is that there is no screenshot of the entire UI or window of the program on your website. It looks like there's some VSCode and as others mention, other CAD software styles, leading to the impression that this is a plugin that you use alongside other things.

The nature of the tool itself is another reason. It claims compatibility on the pricing page with various tools and says something along the lines of you can use your existing tools to finalize placement and routing, leading the user to think it's a plugin that automates some of it.

I would suggest putting a more prominent link to your FAQ (https://www.jitx.com/blog/faq) along with updating it with more information in it.

Separately to this, I think it would be nice to have a more complex (more parts, some power and mixed signal elements) design on the website that users can easily browse and evaluate (view layout, schematic, animation/timelapse of design process), so that users can more easily visualize how it might work for an actual project. It seems like many of the examples are fairly simple currently but the power supply TPS chip is fine.

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Thanks for the feedback -- very helpful.