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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by latexr »

kamranjon wrote: post #18

Just wanted to maybe make a light suggestions that, for marketing purposes, this really doesn't need any suggestion of TikTok and also might benefit from less heavy handed mentions of AI. I think it provides a real value proposition on its own without needing to rely on those two things to sell itself. They are pretty polarized terms at this point and I can sort of understand the initial revulsion from hearing TikTok…

I appreciate those things are mentioned front and centre, because it reveals the mindset and goals of the author, which is a useful signal. Depending on the person that signal either means “give it to me now” or “I’m going to stay far far away from this”, but either way it’s useful to know.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by latexr »

bko wrote: post #37

What I don't understand about these specialized social networks, that obviously won't exist in a few months as they won't get traction, is why not just use the existing social networks? Instead of some LinkedIn / TikTok / Facebook / Insta for X, create a group or channel in an existing network. Create a subreddit, or Facebook group or telegram channel. There are a number of existing social networks that are good at c…

> why not just use the existing social networks?

Because you don’t control the existing social network, meaning you can’t exploit and profit from the users in a group¹, which is the whole point of making a digital social networks².

¹ And if you do find a way, the parent network will simply eat you up.

² Outside of a few truly ideological non-profits.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by ciwrl »

kamranjon wrote: post #18

Just wanted to maybe make a light suggestions that, for marketing purposes, this really doesn't need any suggestion of TikTok and also might benefit from less heavy handed mentions of AI. I think it provides a real value proposition on its own without needing to rely on those two things to sell itself. They are pretty polarized terms at this point and I can sort of understand the initial revulsion from hearing TikTok…

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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dennisy wrote: post #28

I love this and wanted to build this - but https://www.alphaxiv.org/ already exists, and it gets no social action (hardly any papers have comments), so this makes me doubtful about this. I am interested to hear if anyone knows why the format may not resonate with researchers or those reading papers in general? My own reason is that to get value from a "social" site the number of interactions has to be high and of a f…

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by ciwrl »

jhartikainen wrote: post #13

In some ways I like the concept. Making interesting papers easier to find and easier to digest seems like a good thing. But the popularity metrics and AI aspects seem like they will cause a bias towards certain types of papers, making potentially useful ones not get found.

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