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ResearchU – AI-Powered Research Assistant

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ResearchU – AI-Powered Research Assistant

heyy HN, I built ResearchU, an AI-powered research assistant that scrapes papers (arXiv for now), finds gaps, suggests algorithms, and drafts research papers. Basically, it automates the annoying parts of research. It's open source and it's at https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/ResearchU . If you see a 504, wait a minute and refresh—free servers, y'know. I wanna expand this beyond academia—assignment solver, big problem deducer, literature generator, and more sources beyond arXiv. Also, looking for funding to make this actually usable at scale.

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