Show HN: I built Reddit but for research only

Show HN: I built Reddit but for research only(asone.ai)

23 points by shuhari 5 years ago | 13 comments

caterama 5 years ago |

Neat! Any plans to join the Fediverse with ActivityPub? Recently showcased open source reddit clone https://dev.lemmy.ml/ seems to be heading in this direction. Reddit for research could be achieved by hosting a Lemmy instance. With reddit clones popping up left and right, I think the competitive advantage will shift to community and moderation quality rather than technical quality. It could be good to cooperate around a common federated solution allowing individual instances to specialize and focus on community and moderation while everyone benefits from new features and bug fixes. I'm not sure how many reddit clones I can check each day!

newman8r 5 years ago |

Ah this is cool - I was just recently wondering if there were any new discussion boards that were mathjax enabled.

I'm also working on a discussion community... it's not so easy but the time seems right.

shuhari 5 years ago | |

Cool, what's the URL for your discussion community?

newman8r 5 years ago | | |

it's podaero.com - composed of a lot of small groups. The most recent one is https://podaero.com/info/hacker-pod

ecesena 5 years ago |

If I can make a UI suggestion, I'd move the tags on the right and reduce the colors. I find it a bit difficult to skim through the titles if they're not all aligned to the left.

shuhari 5 years ago | |

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it out.

BossingAround 5 years ago |

Interesting. Is the source code available? (asking just out of curiosity)

shuhari 5 years ago | |

Not right now, but we are planning to release it eventually!

jidiculous 5 years ago |

What's the size of your userbase so far?

shuhari 5 years ago | |

Around 100 sign-ups at the moment, but most are inactive. We're starting to focus more on growing the userbase now. The chicken-and-egg problem is pretty rough!

I'd love to hear any feedback on what we can do to improve.

jidiculous 5 years ago | | |

Academia Twitter could be helpful, but you'll have to find the relevant hashtags to follow for each field. You might also actually want to reach out to journal publishers like Nature or Elsevier (blegh) to see if they'll write a short piece about you. The Scientist(https://www.the-scientist.com) also runs news-style articles about peer-reviewed research as well as happenings in life science, so that could be an avenue you could explore for promotion too.

Another thing you could possibly do is ORCID sign-in. If users want their real names associated with their accounts, they may as well have an easy way to link their site presence to their publications, giving them further credibility (and accountability).