To put it in perspective, used to pay about $85-$90 for 10 completed boards —- shipped —- now it is $316ish for 10 boards shipped.
Their CEO Andrew Seddon was recently on the AmpHour podcast:
https://theamphour.com/699-circuithub-12-years-later-with-an...
My project uses gerbers and they do not accept them. Will see what I can do
I'd be very surprised if any of these companies they list are willing to give project files for manufacture. I assume they do this because smaller companies and hobbyist see it as more convienient, and to CircuitHub it means less mistakes / time dealing with the customer when they generate their own outputs.
I didn’t design the PCB so all I have are gerbers and BOMs (as CSV)
I speculate this is going to slow down the small hardware hobbyist small business space, by maybe 50%.
To expand, in too many words:
Personally I have a penchant for music synthesizers and many of them are from a one-person shop. I imagine these 3x price increases are going to slow people down. Determined and cost agnostic people will power through this. People who just have an idea and are actually motivated by the past inexpensive PCB prototyping universe, will a lot more about cost and prototyping and a lot less about the problem that they're solving. And I just can't imagine it being anything less than a 50% slowdown for those folks.
That's always been my problem with buying American. I'd be willing to pay 2x as much to support manufacturers in my own country. Maybe 3x. But 10x-15x as much? EABOD, I'll stick with China. While infuriating, the Trump tariffs are nowhere near enough to alter the outcome of that calculation.
Meanwhile our Chinese suppliers were honest with us.
The one benefit the American places are supposed to have, they managed to squander through either sheer greed or incompetence.
Plus these are going on high altitude balloons aka throwaway so a lot of people have a hard time spending that