Digikey's parametrics were the best in industry prior to ours, but they were still really painful to use because of the strings. But to even get to the parametrics, you first have to know in advance the category and subcategory names of the part you're looking for. There are over 3000 different categories, so even once you're pretty good, you're always asking yourself "is what i'm looking for in the logic category or the amplifier category". With Zenode, all this is handled using natural language! And we did a huge overhaul on the parametrics, we turned the strings into structured values and built modern filters that are just waaay easier to use.
Octopart is a bit of a different beast from us. They're crushing the pricing and availability data, which is actually hard to get (a LOT of business development to get access to the realtime values from the distributors themselves). Plus they have a really massive catalog, definitely broader than ours, but they don't have the depth (i.e. the detailed spec and documentation data) that we do because we went to the manufacturer websites to obtain that.
Octopart is a bit of a different beast from us. They're crushing the pricing and availability data, which is actually hard to get (a LOT of business development to get access to the realtime values from the distributors themselves). Plus they have a really massive catalog, definitely broader than ours, but they don't have the depth (i.e. the detailed spec and documentation data) that we do because we went to the manufacturer websites to obtain that.