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

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

That's some great advice. I'll definitely look into the ORCID sign-in. Thank you!

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.

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

We’re building a platform for crowdsourcing the research process, from ideation to peer review at https://asone.ai.

It’s kind of like arXiv with voting and comments, but also supports collaboration for research in progress.

You could literally do this process in a web interface that looked like Hacker News, but they already pretty much do.

I would love to hear your thoughts about how the current systems might be improved and if we’re on the right track.

Thanks!

What is confusing if I may ask?

I've been building a "Reddit for research".

https://asone.ai

AsOne is a platform for crowdsourcing research where anyone can create and join research communities. We allow all research topics, from COVID-19 to your own personal research.

Our mission is to help solve humanity's hardest problems by creating a world where research is openly accessible and massively collaborative.

Topics on our site are organized into a tree, so for example the P versus NP topic is a child of the Computational Complexity topic, which is a child of the Computer Science topic. Even specific attacks on P versus NP, such as by Vinay Deolalikar can have their own page under the P versus NP page.

We aim to fulfill Timothy Gowers' ultimate vision of the Polymath Projects. We recently became the official host of the Polymath Wiki [1]. I have been in correspondence with Terence Tao, who has an account on the main site (under the username teorth) and has been giving us design feedback.

We are currently a small team of 3, and are looking for people who can help in any way! If you're interested in the project, please join our development process at Discord [2] or email me at thomas@asone.ai

[1] https://asone.ai/polymath/index.php?title=Main_Page

[2] https://discord.gg/7K5z6d4

Really cool idea! :)

We plan to take a cut of the crowdfunding transactions.

Hi, HN! This is Thomas from AsOne.

AsOne is a website where anyone can contribute to research discussions.

The website is organized like Reddit, with each "subreddit" being a research topic. Topics include famous unsolved math problems (Millennium Problems), AI safety research, ways to prevent climate change, and user-created topics. The goal of the website is to solve humanity's hardest problems by bringing together humanity's brightest minds, as one.

We plan to eventually integrate a crowdfunding platform which will allow anyone to sponsor research that interests them via recurring donations, like Patreon. These contributions go toward a per-topic pool which is distributed among the topic’s verified researchers on a monthly basis; the amount received by a researcher is based on how much time they commit to actively researching the topic and helping its community.

I am applying for the Summer 2020 batch of YC, and this is my current description for the "What is your company going to make?" question. I would love to hear any feedback about my pitch or the startup itself.

I am also looking for suggestions on which topics to focus on for our initial beta release - the goal is to achieve a novel result through collaboration on the website. You can vote and add new suggestions here: (https://poll.ly/#/2Mr5rOq1)

The other ones were taken. :(

We plan to take a cut of the crowdfunded transactions, like Patreon or Kickstarter does. We could also show academia-relevant ads on the sidebar. We will never paywall content on our platform.

I will probably create a Show HN thread very soon to officially announce it, but I am creating a startup that aims to cover these areas.

Essentially it's 'Reddit + Patreon for research'.

http://asone.ai/