Stillwind
High Resolution Electronic Component Search
Details
- External ID
- 48494234
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stillwind
- Website domain
- stillwind.ai
- Launched
- June 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.42008196721311475
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
We’ve spent the last couple of months building Stillwind Search, a search engine for electronic components that helps users find parts that fit even the most complex set of specifications.After talking to the people that actually build PCBs we found out that finding the exact part you are looking for, is consuming enormous amounts of times, is very tedious and then often doesn’t yield the best results. So we tried to cut down this search time by just requiring a (broad) description of the specifications and we find the correct part in minutes, not hours.This is possible through our own database of parts and their properties. We used LLMs to extract every parameter about a part into >1k schemas, collectively covering more than 130k properties. This depth of properties could no longer be visualized, so the database is queried interactively by an AI agent (Sonnet 4.6) to find the needle in the haystack of parts. Before results are shown, we use another model to verify the data (that’s why it might take a moment before the first results appear).We currently have almost all microcontrollers, sensors, and other advanced ICs on the market, as well as a wide selection of passives and generic parts. We are working on adding more parts and are more than happy to take suggestions.I know that folks on HN like technical details on how this works, so let me give a short overview: Frontend: SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers + Hyperdrive Backend: PostgreSQL 18 (with io_uring) database, with extensions on NVMe drives hosted on a beefy server.We appreciate all feedback and are happy to answer any questions :)Btw: We are already working on a way that you can search combinations of parts, finding the optimal combination of parts.
Enrichment
- Theme
- lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- search for electronic components
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Extracting IPC-compliant footprints from diverse manufacturer PDF datasheets and building an accurate electronic component spec engine requires complex domain-specific CAD modeling and EDA verification.
What it would actually take: The pipeline requires computer vision and multimodal parsing models tuned specifically for engineering schematics and mechanical dimension drawings, mapping extracted geometry to strict IPC-7351B standards and KLC rules. The hardest part is programmatic CAD generation for diverse EDA formats (KiCad, Altium, Eagle) with micron-level tolerances where hallucination causes multi-thousand dollar hardware respins, backed by human-in-the-loop review. This requires senior hardware/PCB engineers and specialized layout/EDA software pipeline developers.
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