A lot of people have been asking us why things are so quiet at Octopart. There were rumors that Sam was trying out for American Idol and that Harish had moved to India to run a mango lassi stand. There was even a rumor that I had been tapped for Transportation Secretary by the Obama Administration. Well, all of the rumors are false (my application for Transportation Secretary was rejected). Things have been quiet at Octopart because we have been rewriting every single line of code from scratch.

Today we're releasing the new frontend code. Everything will feel familiar but hopefully a bit snappier. Unfortunately, we also had to disable some features (parametric search sliders, partlists, cross-distributor shopping cart) while we rewrite the code to handle them. In the short term we're going to focus on search so keep an eye out for more sophisticated search features soon. Our original goal was to build a great search engine and we know we're not there. Yet....

Please email us with issues and suggestions (contact@octopart.com).