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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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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…

> My own reason is .. maybe not possible to hit on research papers.

I think fancy people with appropriate credentials and .edu emails are all using openreview? So the audience is what, the unwashed masses who also happen to be doing some light reading at the bleeding edge of knowledge? Surely there are dozens of us I tell you, dozens! =P But yeah, maybe not enough to sustain a social network.

Never heard of alphaxiv, will try. I would also love for this to work, probably not willing to risk slogging through science twitter/bluesky/mastodon. Honestly HN would be the obvious place if it would add a pretty simple tagging system as most of the people interested are probably already here. I don't think we'll see that, because if we had filters no one would go to the front page, and that'd be a bad thing for certain interests.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

#72

This is against the Show HN rules from what i can see: > If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I didn’t know that! I really wanted to know if people are interested in that type of product or not, the app is almost ready, actually I’m in beta testing step

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

#73

I would focus on the paper recommendation system more. If paper recommendation system is strong and gives value, then it could be really useful for the scientific community.

Shameless plug: Have you tried https://papermatch.me ?

Would really appreciate your feedback!

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

#74
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…

Scirate.com has been going since before 2010 and still active as far as I'm aware. Mostly used by quantum info folks though.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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post #72

This is against the Show HN rules from what i can see: > If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I didn’t know that! I really wanted to know if people are interested in that type of product or not, the app is almost ready, actually I’m in beta testing step

It's okay, we all miss these guidelines from time to time but if you wanted to know if people are interested in that type of product or not before launch, you can join the monthly discussion "Ask HN: What are you working on?" [1]. If the HN community is interested in your idea, you will get a lot of feedback/questions to validate your concept.

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1.(https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

#78

I think the AI portion is not just something that ought have a toggle, but it should not be part of the platform. Somewhat recently, the ACM (one of the premier publishers for computer science) integrated AI-generated summaries for all papers, and it made these summaries appear in place of author-written abstracts; to find the abstract, users had to use a toggle. The ACM argued that this was a benefit. After signific…

Wow. Cannot believe that the ACM did this. All hope is lost.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

#79

This is against the Show HN rules from what i can see: > If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Hn also has rules where posts are supposed to elicit intellectual discussion but half of the posts are just like reddit now

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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post #72

This is against the Show HN rules from what i can see: > If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I didn’t know that! I really wanted to know if people are interested in that type of product or not, the app is almost ready, actually I’m in beta testing step

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