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24 alternatives to Tracking the impact of research software
Today we’re proud to officially launch Depsy, an open-source webapp that tracks research software impact. We made Depsy to solve a problem: in modern science, research software is often as important as traditional research papers–but it’s not treated that way when it comes to fundi
Depsy is an open-source web application that measures the impact of research software. It addresses the gap between the importance of research software in modern science and its undervaluation in funding and tenure… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tracking the impact of research software launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Middleware▲257Open-source DORA metrics for software engineering teams
2024 · github.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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Improve your dev team’s work output, wellbeing & teamwork
2024 · howareyou.work · its alternatives →
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NodeLand▲533Hello, HN! Have you ever considered that you might be a visual thinker? A lot of studies emphasize the benefits of visual thinking in learning, as it activates different parts of the brain and enhances comprehension and retention. It is common, for example, to remind yourself of a concept by visualizing the page where you wrote it down. This is because the brain is more likely to remember visual information than text. Unlike traditional linear note-taking apps like Notion and Evernote, NodeLand introduces a revolutionary connection-based model. Everything you write is seamlessly integrated…
2024 · nodeland.io · its alternatives →
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dejavu▲90A modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch.
2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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2016 · deusu.org · its alternatives →
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Weave▲237Hey HN, We’re building Weave: an ML-powered tool to measure engineering output, that actually understands engineering output! Why? Here’s the thing: almost every eng leader already measures output - either openly or behind closed doors. But they rely on metrics like lines of code (correlation with effort: ~0.3), number of PRs, or story points (slightly better at ~0.35). These metrics are, frankly, terrible proxies for productivity. We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact directly, with a far better 0.94 correlation. The result? A standardized engineering output…
2025 · app.workweave.ai · its alternatives →
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ROAARRR▲182Hey HN, I built ROAARRR because most analytics tools make it hard to get clear answers. You spend hours setting up dashboards and connecting data, but you still don’t really know what drives growth. ROAARRR brings your key data together and shows your funnel from awareness to revenue. You can track product activity, create charts for specific events, and see how changes affect retention and revenue. It’s free to try today. I’d love your feedback, especially on what feels confusing or missing.
Nov 2025 · roaarrr.app · its alternatives →
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Hi all! This morning, we released a new Apache 2.0 licensed model on HuggingFace for detecting hallucinations in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. What we've found is that even when given a "simple" instruction like "summarize the following news article," every LLM that's available hallucinates to some extent, making up details that never existed in the source article -- and some of them quite a bit. As a RAG provider and proponents of ethical AI, we want to see LLMs get better at this. We've published an open source model, a blog more thoroughly describing our methodology (and…
2023 · vectara.com · its alternatives →
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OpenScholarXIV is an open-source, aesthetic, minimal and AI powered app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository. - ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A powerful browsing application to collect and share info
2014 · its alternatives →
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2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →
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The ultimate toolkit for reseachers
2023 · squidandfish.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! We are excited to announce the second release of Desbordante — an open-source, high-performance data profiler that is capable of discovering and validating many different patterns in data using various algorithms. Unlike existing data profilers, Desbordante focuses on discovering complex patterns in data, which are notoriously hard to extract. Since its inception in 2019, it has become the fastest open-source tool for these tasks. It also offers an array of patterns which have no alternative implementations. With this release, Desbordante now supports 17 types of patterns, such as:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Over the last two years, we’ve seen just how quickly science can move when it’s conducted out in the open, and the focus is on content rather than the publishing process. We’ve built a new way for researchers and scientists to communicate and share their findings with the world - rethought from first principles, with a lot more coming soon. Free to use, and available now for anyone with a university email address. We’re whitelisting organizations that conduct and publish research on a rolling basis. Please forward feedback and thoughts to [email protected] or comment here!
2022 · dystr.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve started building a distributed search engine for scholarly literature, which is completely contained within a browser extension: install it from the Chrome Web Store. It uses WebRTC and magic, and is currently, like, right now, used by 0 people. It’s you who can be number...
2014 · juretriglav.si · its alternatives →
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Thinking notebook and Markdown editor. Contribute to dvorka/mindforger development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.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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Sci-Hub Scholar is a browser extension that takes Google Scholar search results and tries to point them at Sci-Hub, where they can be read freely. The main selling point for this extension versus others is that it works right on the results page, rather than the article page at the pay-walled website. One night, I decided I was going to do some research, only to find every Google Scholar Result behind a paywall. Trying to find the link on Sci-Hub, I ran into a bunch of issues: * https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ is down * Annoying to copy/paste title to Sci-Hub * Didn't want…
2022 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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A Web UI for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch: Import, browse and edit data with rich filters and query views, create reference search UIs. - Release Dejavu 1.0.0 is here · appbaseio/dejavu
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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