Contact with Altium about a light/hobbyist version

[gregariz]

For me personally I am just staying with Altium because I don't know any other software package that would do better for a reasonable price.

My experience has been that the larger companies tend to use either Pads, Orcad or Altium.

But I think there a number of lower cost packages that are pretty good, although maybe without all the bells and whistles. I never really liked the Eagle UI, but the price was right so its understandable why it became popular. I used it for a while after I dumped altium in the late 90's. I also quite like the UI in the Proteus package but each to their own.

[T4P]

Apart from Eagle's old UI , i couldn't understand how to use it at first ( of course , there went the program )
But then i started to understand it ...
Altium ? Better not say anything lest ...

[Galenbo]

Hobbyists become well-heeled hobbyists or turn their hobby into a business, students become professionals, one-man-bands get bigger and better etc.

MBA courses say otherwise. Companies are built around great Vision and ideas, and started up with a multi 1 million dollar Bank loan. If things don't work as expected, you just need more Vision.

Just enough to allow hobbyists, hacker, makers, and midnight engineers to get started and produce something useful they can sell.
If you want your vault/cloud stuff to take off, you have to allow this group to use and contribute, they are the most passionate.

They are passionate, but unable to micro-manage. So they simply don't exist.
And they surely don't spend millions stupidly for a crap product.


I'm somehow dissapointed in your contibutions on this topic. (and other Altium topics)
Even when I think you're right on everything (I don't know anything about Altium)
I am a fan of your Video's and Site because of your "Crap that, but let's do this" approach.
Ignoring Bullshit, and at the same time passionate about other things.

Let them sleep in, do whatever, ignore them and buy them when they're only worth 10 dollar.
And then make a video about it :-)