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Life & fun · April 21, 2025

ArTok is TikTok for research papers

Hello everyone! I always found it hard to find new research papers outside of my usual bubble. I thought a random feed (with no recommendation algorithms) might be a fun way to explore. But I also didn’t want to waste time on completely unrelated stuff — so the idea of a fast, swipeable format came to mind. Wikitok was a real inspiration! But Arxiv and Open Review APIs weren’t as robust as Wikipedia, so I pulled the papers into a Postgres backend. Right now, I’ve indexed papers from a few recent ML conferences to see if this might be useful for others too. No signups required and it’s…

ArTok is TikTok for research papers launched on April 21, 2025 with 8 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

ArTok - Research Paper Discovery Platform. Discover, save, and explore research papers from top AI/ML conferences.

Navigate the world of academic research with ease. Find, read, and save papers that matter to you. Explore research papers with smart search, curated feeds, and clean design. Get instant understanding of complex research with AI-generated summaries and powerful search capabilities. Get concise, intelligent summaries that capture the essence of complex research papers in just a few sentences. Find papers by concept, not just keywords, powered by state-of-the-art language models. AI-generated tags and keywords help you quickly identify topics, methods, and themes across papers. Search by specific keywords, author names, or research topics to find papers that match your interests. Swipe…from artok.app

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello everyone! I always found it hard to find new research papers outside of my usual bubble. I thought a random feed (with no recommendation algorithms) might be a fun way to explore. But I also didn’t want to waste time on completely unrelated stuff — so the idea of a fast, swipeable format came to mind. Wikitok…

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