[HN Gopher] Show HN: ScholArxiv - an open-source, aesthetic, min...
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Show HN: ScholArxiv - an open-source, aesthetic, minimal research
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Author : dagmawibabi
Score : 135 points
Date : 2024-08-06 16:37 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dagmawibabi wrote:
| ScholArxiv is an open-source aesthetic and minimal app that
| allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view
| summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository that you
| can download now.
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| Features
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| Read Papers: Read entire papers in detail within the app.
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| Bookmarks: Save your favorite papers for quick access.
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| Summaries: View and listen to brief paper summaries.
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| Search Papers: Search for papers using keywords, titles, authors
| and abstract. If no keyword is provided the app suggests random
| popular papers.
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| Download and Share Papers: Download papers for offline reading or
| you can share document links to others.
| ttpphd wrote:
| Can you define "open-source aesthetic"?
| chronogram wrote:
| "open-source, aesthetic, and minimal app"
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| Thank you and yes! I've edited the title now.
| AshenafiGo wrote:
| Nice! ScholArxiv is gonna make exploring research papers fun.
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| Thanks!
| bbor wrote:
| A) cool app, well executed!
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| B) this has further radicalized me into pure web development.
| What native features does this take advantage of that couldn't be
| accomplished just as easily in typescript? I don't have an
| android :(
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| A. Thanks a whole lot
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| B. Nothing that serious, it can definitely be a webapp. And
| currently working on doing that. I'd be happy if you'd like to
| contribute.
| bbor wrote:
| Fair enough, thanks for the polite response! I guess my
| overall gist was "we should outlaw apps" but I'll save that
| for another thread ;).
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| I hope to see this linked from Arxiv itself some day soon!
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| Thanks a whole lot! :)
| bulibuta wrote:
| What about offline access to documents, bookmarks, summaries
| and other data you already downloaded? How would accessing this
| through a browser provide this reliably? Honest question.
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| Well dowloading just stores it onto the PC so that's up to
| the user to manage the files, but bookmarks can be stored in
| the cache/localstorage
| bulibuta wrote:
| But it will no longer be managed by the webapp like your
| native app can, right?
| bulibuta wrote:
| Great app, if it is not too much trouble would you please
| consider posting it on f-droid as well?
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| alright doing it right now!
| dartharva wrote:
| Some feedback:
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| 1. It will be a lot better if the Summary popup can be stretched
| to full-screen with font size controls.
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| 2. There needs to be a feature to browse papers based on subjects
| and other applicable categories.
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| 3. There need to be playback controls (pause, rewind, etc.) for
| audio narration of the summaries.
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| 4. Themes customization and dark mode will also be great features
| to have.
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| These are wonderful ideas, I'll implement them all and post
| when I'm done thank you!
| dartharva wrote:
| Awesome!
|
| Really love the concept by the way!
| dagmawibabi wrote:
| Thanks, I'll keep on improving. Also what do you think
| about a paid version where AI is integrated? So imagine
| each paper having an AI generated image cover, the
| summaries being more descriptive, and you can also converse
| with the ai to explain specific words/concepts right in the
| app. Do you think people would pay for it?
| dartharva wrote:
| I like that idea and do think it'll be quite valuable if
| it had that.
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| But you're probably better off discussing monetization
| with the other more intelligent experts here. I'm just a
| lurker :)
| bArray wrote:
| The AI image cover idea should be free - colours help
| keep the mind from becoming distracted.
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| The content processing could be good, especially if it
| was to decrease the complexity of the language and
| simplify the concepts. I would take care that the
| descriptions could be horribly wrong and misleading.
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| I would probably look to monetize in a different way:
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| 1. Synchronization of papers across devices.
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| 2. Notes on papers, that could also be shared.
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| 3. A service to find publications of that paper (arXiv
| isn't always updated with this).
| abela12 wrote:
| Cool project--keep it up!
| kish2011 wrote:
| This site looks good where you can post your own important links
| & curate, share with others
|
| https://glice-next-js.vercel.app/c/databases-and-data-mining
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