Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Plasmyd, a platform for scientists to discuss papers
We're trying to create a space for scientific discussion about papers online, we'd love some feedback. http://plasmyd.com/
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Plasmyd, a platform for scientists to discuss papers launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2021 · cusdis.com · its alternatives →
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http://paperkast.com Hello everybody, I just wanted to share a link aggregator website: paperkast.com. It's a article sharing and discussion hub. It's opened recently. I think it was a need for the academia. I don't think there is an online community for paper discussion. Twitter is good for publication sharing but there is no central discussion around a paper. It's all over the place. Seperately, we know that the link aggregation style has a good reputation. It's a good stimulation for discussion. What do you think of it?
2018 · its alternatives →
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2014 · coredemia.com · its alternatives →
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JournalJerk▲98Journal or else. Email-based journaling for slackers.
2017 · journaljerk.com · its alternatives →
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Understanding scientific articles can be tough, even in your own field. Trying to comprehend articles from others? Good luck. Enter, Now I Get It! I made this app for curious people. Simply upload an article and after a few minutes you'll have an interactive web page showcasing the highlights. Generated pages are stored in the cloud and can be viewed from a gallery. Now I Get It! uses the best LLMs out there, which means the app will improve as AI improves. Free for now - it's capped at 20 articles per day so I don't burn cash. A few things I (and maybe you will) find interesting: * This is…
Feb 2026 · nowigetit.us · its alternatives →
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Discourse▲287A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.
2015 · discourse.org · its alternatives →
- 8HB
Hey guys, I love HN! I wanted to extend the same aesthetic and community towards things beyond tech-related news. I thought it would be cool to get the same quality of community gathered around the latest and greatest research coming out. Let me know what you guys think of what I have so far. It's still early so there are probably bugs and other quality issues. If there's any features missing that you'd want let me know. ALSO, if any of you are familiar with the map of the territory of any particular field, please let me know! Would love to pick your brain and to come up with a 'most…
2024 · papertalk.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm Ritinkar and I'm building metadocs, which is kind of like reddit built into every documentation ever. It's a chrome extension that allows discussion on any webpage to happen there itself. Currently I have built threaded comments, and a upvote/downvote system. Plus I've built this cool feature called Highlights, which lets you discuss specific lines in any documentation. As well as a feature called Top Hightlights, which shows the most interesting hightlights on any webpage. Hope you guys will try it out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here. Thanks.
2022 · metadocs8.com · its alternatives →
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A Linux desktop in the cloud built for Machine Learning
2016 · its alternatives →
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Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim - nim-lang/nimforum
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discourse▲43New open source discussion platform from Jeff Atwood.
2014 · discourse.org · its alternatives →
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Discover, annotate, write and share scientific research.
2016 · sciwheel.com · its alternatives →
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A new type of science journal. Funded by you!
2015 · experiment.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! While searching for entrepreneurial ideas on various sites, I noticed there wasn’t a dedicated space for finding and discussing real-world problems that need solving. That’s why I created the Problem Platform—a place where we can share, explore, and tackle problems together. Check it out!
2024 · theproblemplatform.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · sci-share.com · its alternatives →
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I posted our project a few days ago in a thread about Vitamin D. We’ve made some UI improvements people might find interesting.
2022 · keywords.groundedai.company · its alternatives →
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2013 · egocodedinsol.github.io · its alternatives →
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CrowdMed▲65Crowd-sourced medical diagnosis for rare diseases
2014 · crowdmed.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · journaljerk.com · its alternatives →
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Comments on Science is a free and public user-generated database of scientific comments. Commenting on papers in academic journals is a complicated process, with many steps between an idea for a comment and the appearance of that comment in a (mostly closed-access) publication. The goal of Comments on Science is to reduce this friction and enable accessible and free scientific communication. About the site: I decided to build something useful in the month of May and this is what I made. It has a few features like following (users, papers, or comments), tagging, voting, etc. It was a nice…
2011 · cos.juretriglav.si · its alternatives →
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