jmc_dev•2w ago

PaperLens - your smarter, AI-powered way to explore research papers

👋 Hi everyone! I'm excited to announce that I've recently launched PaperLens, built with Convex powering the entire backend. 🚀 🔗 https://thepaperlens.com/ ? What is it? Tired of wading through unreliable sources and struggling to verify scientific claims? PaperLens transforms how you explore academic research by connecting you directly to peer-reviewed papers from arXiv and PubMed Central. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI, it makes finding and understanding research papers as simple as having a conversation. ✨ 🎯 Key Features - 🔍 RAG-Powered Search: Semantic search combining AI with traditional search methods for precise results - 💬 Research Assistant Chatbot: AI-powered assistant providing instant answers and paper summaries - 🔄 Multi-Source Integration: Unified search across arXiv and PubMed Central - ⚡ Smart Filtering: Publication date and relevance score filtering - 📝 AI-Generated Summaries: Concise overviews of scientific consensus from top papers - 📚 Save Papers: Easy paper saving system ⚙️ How Convex Helped - ⚡ Real-time updates - 💾 Storing a large amount of embeddings - 🔐 User authentication - 🤖 Easy integration with OpenAI to generate embeddings and responses - 🔍 Efficient vector search for storing and searching for embeddings - 📊 Usage tracking and limits - 🔄 Webhook handling 🚀 Potential Future Features - 📚 More paper sources - 🤖 Add AI Agent capabilities to the research assistant to give it more resources and context when answering the user's questions - 📱 Native mobile app - 🤝 Shared Paper Collections - ✨ + features suggested by users 🔗 https://thepaperlens.com/

PaperLens

PaperLens

Your AI-powered lens into the world of research papers