HELLO FROM SUPPLYFRAME – YOUR new EVIL OVERLORDS !
A couple of weeks back one of our engineers woke up as well as checked out that HackADay was going up for sale. His very first reaction was much the exact same as many routine visitors of HackADay, he was concerned as well as concerned that a site that he has checked out everyday for many years was going to be offered to somebody who would quickly carve it up as well as destroy it. So he bumped it up the chain right here at SupplyFrame as well as we chose that had would be a great in shape for us as well as so we made an offer as well as right here we are!
Who the hell are SupplyFrame?
We’re a innovation business on a objective to enhance all elements of the engineering as well as electronics industry. You’ve most likely not heard of us directly, however if you’ve ever utilized FindChips then you’ve utilized one of our sites. If you do a bit digging you’ll soon discover that we offer an marketing network to the electronics industry. While technically this may make us ‘the evil’ in numerous peoples eyes, we’re much more than yet one more media company. Our platform as well as products are utilized by millions of engineers every month, as well as we’re building new tools to make developing as well as producing electronics even easier.
What do you want with HaD?
We develop tools for engineers, it only makes sense that we develop a better connection with the neighborhood here. A few of our personnel are routine readers, one has even had one of his hacks featured on HaD. We want to do much more of that. While we’re mainly computer science nerds, we are aspiring makers as well as hackers – we have a hacklab in our office as well as a couple of jobs under method (check out the blog over here). We try to eat our own dogfood as well as to typically have a great time building awesome stuff. ideally soon we’ll have some hacks of our own to publish up.
Obviously we have to get some return on our investment, we make many of our money from our marketing network so we’ll most likely modification out the ads on the site, however that’s the only major modification we want to make to the site at this point. rest assured we won’t be filtering or shaping the material based on our advertisers whims as well as our primary focus will always be on the neighborhood as well as discovering methods we can assist to make it better.
Where do we go from here?
Well, we’ll keep had running mainly as it has been, the adverts will be much more appropriate (which numerous of you may really discover refreshing), however other than that not much will change. We’ll try as well as bring in a few much more writers as well as to assist polish up things that have been left unattended. numerous of the plans that were suggested in Brian’s presentation line up well with our thoughts so ideally we’ll see a few of those happen.
In the longer term we’re going to see if we can assist out with our contacts, our software application advancement proficiency as well as whatever else we can believe of. We’ve got a great connection with great deals of business in the electronics industry, we hope we can leverage a few of those connections to make great stuff occur here.
Really we’re available to ideas, so let us understand your thoughts on exactly how to enhance had as well as we’ll see what we can assist with. One thing you can be sure of, we’re not right here to do evil, we’re right here to hack stuff as well as have fun doing it !
Aleksandar Bradic
CTO
SupplyFrame