SciSpace - Your AI assistant to discover and understand research papers

Hi 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. ⌛

This is indeed a radical innovation!! Data and AI backed power tool would stand in good stead to researchers, philosophers and change drivers in their field. An excellent platform to excel and accelerate out of your enormous and tedious research process!! The highlighting feature to me is that it demystifies complex aspects of research papers and yields a simplified output. I would also like to underscore the other relevant research paper suggestions rendered to elevate your study. This is best dated platform which supports your research, enhances your study and prompts invention!!!

Congrats on the launch, guys! The project looks very interesting. Just out of my curiosity, what technology is behind your AI? Dialogflow, OpenAI, or something proprietary? Another question is why do your stick with the research papers only? I'm pretty sure this technology can be used for a broader range of documents, brining value to more people.

I myself being a reader and interested in new and upcoming technologies .... It is really interesting what this product can do ... As I'm exploring the product i can see so many features which i think can be really helpful to our generation and will have a new perspective towards the AI . Well I'm really curious to explore in depth about the product ... All the best and cheers to SciSpace 🎉

This seems pretty cool, do we also have option to try papers currently not hosted on SciSpace and save them, say a library as we interact? Also congrats on the release!🐣

Such an awesome product and 270m+ papers already, wow! Nice work @saikiranchandha and team!

Unconventional in the extreme, this is! Researchers, philosophers, and change agents in their fields would benefit greatly from a power tool supported by data and al. A fantastic setting for success and a quick exit from your extensive and laborious research procedure! The de-mystification of difficult research paper elements and the output's simplification are its standout features in my opinion. The other pertinent research paper recommendations made to advance your study deserve special attention, too. This is the most up-to-date platform for research, education, and creativity!!

@saikiranchandha Really Interesting work for understanding the research paper, even for the newbie to expert level. With the growing number of scientific paper submissions to top-tier conferences, having AI interventions to counter information overload seems an exciting thing to explore. I will definitely try this with different papers that are stacking up on my reading list.

In this era of AI i think it's really useful tool .. it is packed with multiple features and one of them is that it understand plenty of other languages which is really helpful 😀 . Congratulations SciSpace on the new launch 🥳

Awesome tool to enhance the knowledge and the AI system is extraordinary give best experience.