Show HN: A platform that analyzes research papers for commercial potential

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Post by sergeim19 » Thu, May 01, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

Hi, first time poster here.

I browse arXiv a lot and decided to make this platform that automatically pulls papers from arXiv and uses AI to highlight how they could be used in real-life applications or for commercial purposes. The free version shows reports for papers from the most recent day (usually yesterday). The standard version gives you access to reports for all of the papers that have been analyzed so far, which as of writing this is about 5000 papers (it is growing by about 600-800 every day).

Hope it's helpful to some of you - and if you have any feedback I'd love to hear it.

Show HN: A platform that analyzes research papers for commercial potential
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Re: Show HN: A platform that analyzes research papers for commercial potential

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Post by eamag » Thu, May 01, 2025, 6:43 PM UTC

Hey, I do somethings similar! I did take a bit broader scope at first, but it has "entrepreneur" field inside https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me

I wrote a bit more about it here https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project

I think LLMs are usually give very simple ideas if you don't do "deep research" and just give one paper, I assume that's what you're doing? At least I saw some of my projects were not good, and I need to run more steps on deduplication/improvement

I think the important part is the ranking, but ranking can be subjective (each company/person has different values). I wrote about ranking too https://eamag.me/2025/Ranking-With-LLMs and some ranking at https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/ranking

Shoot me a message if you want to chat more :)

Re: Show HN: A platform that analyzes research papers for commercial potential

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Post by sergeim19 » Thu, May 01, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

eamag wrote: post #2

Hey, I do somethings similar! I did take a bit broader scope at first, but it has "entrepreneur" field inside https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me I wrote a bit more about it here https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project I think LLMs are usually give very simple ideas if you don't do "deep research" and just give one paper, I assume that's what you're doing? At least I saw some of my projects were not good, and I need t…

Oh, that's cool! I will have to read your article on scoring more carefully a bit later but I think that in short, I decided to take a simpler and more heuristic approach for now based on TRL (a well established metric) and a combination of some other factors. I also didn't want the user to consider the score too much as a kind of "divine word". In general I found that the heuristic used is OK for the given score plus/minus maybe 1 point.