For everyone that doesn't know, ScholarXIV is an AI powered, minimal and very powerful research paper discovery and exploration tool.
It's got a very loved and straightforward experience by early testers and the most powerful feature is the ability to select multiple research papers and use AI to get more insight and understanding about them.
I am super excited to announce that the long awaited web version of ScholarXIV is finally here and fully open source. 🥳
It is one of the most beautifully designed, minimal and very powerful research paper exploration platforms out there.
Features • Research Paper Exploration • Like & Bookmark Papers • Comment on Papers • AI Chat • Multiple Paper Select & AI Chat • Summaries • Copying Specific Data • Bring your own API Key • Self Hostable
Idk if you know him but, Phil Wang, which's like a renowned AI researcher is trying out ScholarXIV.
He doesn't star many projects but starred the mobile app version of ScholarXIV previously. Now I sent him the web version and he's gonna try it out and send me feedbacks.
One of the main complaints people had while trying out scholarXIV is logging in and exposing their email and information even though that information is just their full name and email.
Now I have added anonymous browsing. It will generate a temp email, save it in your browser's session and let you get the full experience without using your true logins.
Remember tho, if you clear your cache/session you can't access the same anonymous login.
I am super happy to announce that ScholarXIV.com has gotten an amazing Angel Investor.
He is investing $10k for 8% of the company at a post-money evaluation of $125k, and also apart from the investment, this investor is paying and helping with the incorporation of the company.
The investor is very incredible first for reaching out and then in that the investment is solely based on me and not on the product itself. Meaning I could pivot, I could decide the date I'll accept the investment and just makes things very flexible for me.
Currently I have decided to deal with the investment after YC applications which the investor is completely fine with but I have now started speeding up the company formation process in the US while expenses are covered by the Angel Investor.
There's still so much to go, so many decisions to make and most importantly so much to build. But even being in this spot and position is all God's good doing and grace. I also would like to thank all of you for the support and encouragement.
This's wonderful news and it's all credits to God.
Nearing 600 registered users now, what that means is that people were trying out so many things and things broke.
So been keeping notes on these errors and spent the night handling all of them.
One of the errors I had and was reported the most was that the MongoDB connection kept closing (MongoDB Topology Closed) and ScholarXIV would be offline, which is a major issue.
In Vercel, any function is short lived and terminated soon. Which was what I was doing for the MongoDB connection. Vercel would close it if no one's online on ScholarXIV for like a few minutes. So this's something to keep an eye for.
Now I've handled all the error logs I've seen, and I don't have to worry about it being offline. Keep telling me feedbacks, UI or non-UI issues. Thanks.