Zenode

Find replacements for electronic components on PCBs using AI

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Hey Product Hunt Peeps! 👋😻

Brandon here, CEO and co-founder of Zenode. Thanks for taking a minute to check us out, it's a pretty niche product for EE's, but one that we believe will ultimately affect everyone who buys electronics (which is everyone reading this 😉). And before you get in too deep, we are NOT a circuit board design tool. All we do is read PDFs in an attempt to make PCB designers lives suck less 😅

For those not familiar with PCBs, these are the circuit boards made up of processors, power supplies, sensors, resistors, and tens of millions of other types of components that everything that turns on in your life runs on.

Simply put, Zenode is a search engine for all those electronic components. Ask a natural language question, get an organized list of possibilities. Pretty obvious right? Bet you thought it already worked that way, but nope, it's 2026 and we're still in the Yahoo! era of click trees for component search 🤦‍♂️

The trick to search this industry is that every single component has an instruction manual called a Datasheet that runs 10-1000 pages in length, and that's where 95% of the information is stored. There are over 80M options in the supply chain to choose from when you're putting together a board. And you can't start the board design until you've picked which ones you'll use, so it's my fellow Electrical Engineers responsibility to read dozens of these manuals for parts they will never even use when making a selection (which is about as soul-sucking as you might imagine 😱😵)

But that component search engine was the tip of what AI could do. Today's launch is all about ALTS. 🔀

Remember during Covid, when you couldn't get a PS5 for like 6 months because Intel ran out of it's flagship processor? That's the kind of pain that we EE's have to deal with, and it's even worse than finding components in the first place.

Because when you're initially searching for a component, you've got flexibility. You haven't put anything in stone (well, technically silicon) yet, so you can tweak things to work. But once you've started to manufacture that device, if a single part goes out of stock, you need to find a replacement FAST, and the fewer design changes, the better.

Yesterday's process was incredibly tedious; we would manually read through hundreds of pages of technical PDFs, cross-referencing specs across manufacturer sites, and checking dozens of distributors for availability. A single swap often takes days or even weeks of skimming PDFs to make sure they're not missing a critical footnote.

But with today's launch, the process becomes dead simple. You give Zenode a part number, and we handle the rest, getting you dozens or hundreds of options and using agents to evaluate the critical information in minutes instead of days. Our beta users thus far have been really stoked, I'm hoping several of them will take the time to leave some comments below!

We built this because it's the tool we've always wanted. It's free to try, and pricing starts at $50/mo (scales with usage).

Would love to hear what you think. I'll be reading every comment.

Cheers!