Agree that there will be and should be more scientific writing. I’m building https://motate.app/ to help writing and sharing papers more easy including enhancing with interactive visuals. Also good for math note taking. Not perfect yet but you can use trust and I’ll share on Show HN soon.
Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers
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#93I 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…
I follow a few scientists on instagram and it might be a good idea to message them and ask what might be missing. Personally, I like them only because they translate complex ideas into an info that might not be even mentioned in paper - how exactly normal human being without PHD will benefit it. Good example is a recent time crystal news. I would miss it unless one of those cool people on insta would explain. And it might be a good focus for such app.
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#94yes, wish it was ready! i want it!
Would be cool if there was an images (can be Ai generated) -- with the papers... and maybe a notebookLLM link.
I'm someone who wants to consume the information in papers, but find the format of longform reading as alot of friction.
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#95Agree that there will be and should be more scientific writing. I’m building https://motate.app/ to help writing and sharing papers more easy including enhancing with interactive visuals. Also good for math note taking. Not perfect yet but you can use trust and I’ll share on Show HN soon.
wow this is kind of sick
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#96discovery + beautiful reading UX for papers feels overdue. Curious to see how the on-device AI and quiz mechanics actually change the way people explore and retain new research.
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#97this has been done before several times
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#98This is useful for a quick first pass.
But be careful of the TikTok comparison, it reminds me of the "The uber of.." we used to read everywhere.
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#99I loved this concept. But, reading the TikiTok comparision made me think it is scrolling research papers. But, looks like it's not.