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Your AI assistant to discover and understand research papersHi Product Hunt! 👋

I'm Saikiran. I'm super excited to introduce the PH community to what we've been working on over the past year. 🤩

SciSpace is your AI copilot that can break down any research paper on the go in plain simple language.🤖

⚙️Here’s how it works:

🔍 Search for a paper on our repository or upload the PDF directly 🖍️ Highlight the confusing text, mathematical formula, or tables 📋 Get a concise and straightforward explanation on the same screen 🗨️ Ask questions about the highlighted section or the paper in general 💬 Receive answers in the same chat box ☝️ Follow up with further questions to get more context 💾 Save your progress and come back to it later

​​We launched SciSpace Beta earlier this year. We began as a repository of research papers across domains — with metadata of 200 million+ papers and 50 million+ Open Access full-text PDFs. Progressively, we designed new features to simplify research discovery and learning.

The reaction has been overwhelming. Over the past three months, we attracted more than 1 million readers worldwide. And with the addition of this AI-based reading assistant, we felt the time was right for us to release SciSpace publicly to everyone. 🎆

🧐 Why did we build SciSpace?

My co-founder, Shanu, and I worked closely with the research community in our previous venture. It helped us get a firsthand experience of the different stumbling blocks that slow researchers down. What struck us the most were the frustrations many experienced when trying to find papers or absorb critical insights from these complex texts. Sometimes, it felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.

More than 1.8 million research papers get published every year. So it is fair to say research papers are still very much the way to go for information sharing. But anyone who has stepped into the research world knows that it comes with baggage.

All the complicated words, abbreviations, technical clutter, the clunky PDF reading experience, and, let’s be honest, we had better attention spans like twenty years ago! Now, where were we? Oh yeah, diminishing attention span and also information overload–you don’t even know where to begin!

To make things worse, it is not like you can access all these papers in one place. It is scattered across different journals, archives, and digital libraries.

This is what prompted us to build SciSpace. We want researchers to get more leeway to focus more on finding answers to critical global problems. We hope it will deliver value to the research community and anyone interested in reading papers.

🚀 What can you do with SciSpace?

Most researchers spend hours reading papers every day. We want to help them make the most of it.

And here’s how we do that:

➡️ Highlight confusing text, math, and tables to get a simple explanation ➡️ Ask follow-up questions and get instant answers ➡️ Explore and find highly relevant papers on a topic without specifying keywords

You can perform the three actions across all the 200 million+ papers on our platform. 💡

Pretty cool, right? We’re super excited about this feature. We hope it will help researchers worldwide wade through the clutter, find what they need quickly, understand key concepts and apply them to their projects or share them with their students.

The discovery and reading parts of SciSpace are completely free to use. No trial period. No sign-up is needed. 🫶

🔜 What’s next?

➡️ Improved search and recommendations ➡️ Directly extract insightful answers from papers

We're still very early in our journey, but we're thrilled to share SciSpace with the PH community. Please share any feedback or questions you may have. We'd really appreciate it. 🙏

PS: By the way, we're still using our old domain, typeset.io, but we'll be migrating to scispace.com very soon. ⌛


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