Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

Per Hacker News, ProvenMetal, a Y Combinator startup, wants to rebuild America's domestic circuit board industry. The US produced thirty percent of the world's PCBs in two thousand; today it's just four percent, with China commanding fifty-five percent. The founders initially tried building faster assembly equipment but discovered the real bottleneck was front-office chaos—sourcing components, getting quotes, coordinating suppliers. They pivoted to automation: software with KiCAD and Altium plugins that auto-sources parts and manages the entire manufacturing workflow in parallel, shrinking what takes weeks down to days. They've already logged seventy thousand dollars in six weeks.

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