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In addition to Digikey, Mouser and Newark similarly have diverse catalogs and allow single-unit orders of most parts. I've never ordered from Newark, but I do order from Digikey and Mouser, depending on who has the best price and availability on whatever it is I'm buying.

http://www.mouser.com/ http://www.newark.com/ (and a clickable link for Digi-key: http://www.digikey.com/)

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You might like http://octopart.com, which searches all those sites.

I will definitely support a YC company and use Octopart next time I need to compare prices, and tell my EE friends about it. However, it seems to lack a few features that I'd need to use it to discover new components (such as the ability to compare ADCs by word size and sample rate or other category-specific attributes), and the TOS prohibition against deep linking seems overly restrictive considering there's an API (what if I want to link to an Octopart category from a parts list on an open project's web site?). I look forward to seeing what Octopart becomes, and what others do with the API.

Thanks for the feedback - you're right, the TOS prohibition was overly restrictive, we've removed the deep-linking clause. As far as attribute comparison, we are constantly trying to add more attribute data into our system, but we're still lacking in that department. We do have some data on sample rates for adcs though: http://octopart.com/partbrowser#search/requestData&start...

(this link is to our new partbrowser interface - we've been working on designing a new interface specifically with engineers in mind)

If you have any other suggestions or ideas, definitely let us know.

I'm impressed by the quick response. I did find the part browser through a link from your blog, but somehow missed the sample rate attribute in the Add Column list (I guess I assumed it would be an Integer attribute). This is some very nice work. I wish you the best of luck and hope to use Octopart in my own quest for entrepreneurial success.

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