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You have designed some open hardware and want people who aren't you to find out they could build it. This page is the short path.

You don't install anything

OHM runs as nodes: copies of the software that each hold their own records and share them with each other. You don't need to run one. You become a member of a node that already exists — the one at openhardwaremanager.org, or one your community runs — and add your design there. A browser is all it takes.

Installing OHM is for organisations that want to hold their own records on infrastructure they control. If that's not you, skip Run your own node entirely.

Become a member

Reading OHM needs no account. Adding a design does. On most nodes you can register yourself at /register; see Join a node for what you get and what to keep safe.

Add your design

If your design lives in a public GitHub or GitLab repository, choose Add your design on the home page and give it the repository URL. OHM reads the repository into a draft record — title, licence, manufacturing processes, bill of materials — and you review and correct it before anything is kept.

Reading the repository with a language model gives a fuller draft, and needs an account on that node. Without one, OHM extracts what it can by rule and leaves the rest for you to fill in.

Who sees it

A new design starts private: only you can see it until you change that. When you're ready, widen its visibility and it travels to the nodes that follow yours. See Who can see your data.