Success!

http://hackaday.com/2015/08/21/a-tale-of-two-browser-pcb-tools/

Development of the project is one thing, getting users is another. "Marketing" is work, even for a project that isn't meant to make money (really).

Ultimately I created MeowCAD so that it would be a tool for the community. I'm using it for my own projects but it would be nice if there were other people who could use it as well. Letting people know about MeoCAD and ushering them through the initial pain of learning a new tool and getting started with making electronics design is a difficult process. Cultivating users takes work.

MeowCAD stratches my itch to provide a tool that I can use to explore, learn and design schematics and PCBs for my electronics education. I hope that others will find it useful as well. I've started providing the basics of other user features (snapshots, project management, etc.) in the hopes that they'll be useful to the community. There's been some other press as well:

http://opensource.com/life/15/7/intro-meowcad

http://www.open-electronics.org/meowcad-a-free-foss-online-electronic-design-tool/

I think being free and open source is critical for any project that wants to foster community involvement but getting a community involved and believing in a project is hard work.

MeowCAD as it stands still needs work but the hope is that the marketing and press will attract a few "early adopters" that can help with MeowCAD, either with programming or with general use.

Feel like being an early adopter? Try it out or drop me a line!