Nomoreda's team claims its browser EDA, MCP-friendly and KiCad/Altium-compatible, will give AI agents a native machine-facing surface for PCB design beyond GUI automation.
state: seedheat: lowuncertainty: mediumconvergesscott: mediumagent-harnesses computer-use developer-toolsVladimir Ivlev
What is this?
Nomoreda is a browser-based electronic design automation (EDA) tool for PCB design, announced via a Show HN post, whose differentiator is being 'MCP-friendly' — i.e., exposing a machine-facing interface (Model Context Protocol) so AI coding agents can drive PCB design natively rather than through GUI/computer-use automation — while remaining compatible with KiCad and Altium files. The snippets provided say nothing about Nomoreda itself; they only establish the surrounding 2025–2026 landscape, where agent-driven PCB design is already an active category: Flux.ai embeds an AI copilot in a browser ECAD, and multiple open-source MCP servers (salitronic/eda-agent for Altium/KiCad/EasyEDA, several EasyEDA Pro MCP bridges, a KiCad headless MCP server) let agents inspect and edit live designs. Vladimir Ivlev is named in the case as a key person, presumably founder, but the supplied material does not corroborate that. Net: the story is credible as part of a real trend, but the supplied evidence is thin on Nomoreda's specifics and claimed capabilities.
Why it matters to Scott
Nomoreda is a consequential-if-small vendor independently arriving at Scott's agent-addressability position: it leads with a machine-facing MCP surface for a professional tool instead of GUI/computer-use automation — the exact human-surface vs delegation-surface split his framework draws. The live analytical hook is that 'MCP-friendly' is precisely the case his wiki flags as NOT automatically agent-addressable: whether Nomoreda exposes state/actions/delegated authority/change-feeds (a real delegation surface, V4) or just vendor-side V3 tool calls is testable against the framework, and the radar already tracks a crowded adjacent cluster (Booley, PCBSchemaGen, Lattice FPGA, Cogram, Aetheris) — this entry confirms the agent-driven EDA category is consolidating around native machine interfaces, which matters for how he scores these products.
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queries asked of Scott's wikis
- computer-use vs native tool APIs for agents — position on GUI automation as a dead end
- MCP harness patterns — tools built or argued about for exposing apps to agents
- agent tool surface design — what makes a good machine-facing interface
- domain-specific agents beyond code — hardware, CAD, or non-software engineering agents
- Show HN / indie dev-tools launches previously tracked or discussed
- vertical SaaS or professional-tool AI disruption patterns (agents replacing plugins)
Measured heat
now 0 pts/hpeak 0 pts/hcomments 0/hpeers p14momentum: steady1 platformsage 455h
points/hour across evidence · reading as of 2026-10-12 02:59:37.977291+11:00 · deterministic, not a model opinion
How the heat travelled
pace: p9 vs 1032 stories at the 336h mark (now 455h old) — behind addom-local-coding-harness (0.5x)
Evidence (1) — ⭐ canonical anchor
Interpretation history
2026-09-23T16:41:41Z
grounded: converges/medium — Nomoreda is a consequential-if-small vendor independently arriving at Scott's agent-addressability position: it leads with a machine-facing MCP surface for a pr
2026-09-23T16:36:25Z
case created — Distinct first-party artifact extending agent workflows into professional electronics design, motivated by observed agent CAD capability.
Decision trace
- 09-24 02:41groundNomoreda is a consequential-if-small vendor independently arriving at Scott's agent-addressability position: it leads with a machine-facing MCP surface for a professional tool instead of GUI/comp
- 09-24 02:36createDistinct first-party artifact extending agent workflows into professional electronics design, motivated by observed agent CAD capability.