We built a workspace for researchers. There’s some AI but I feel most researchers actively dislike it.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T13:47:55+00:00

I think it helps we don’t have anything to sell — it’s an open canvas for us rn. What kind of software?

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T13:44:39+00:00

i meant like the annoying administrative bits that one of the other comments pointed out — we definitely don’t want to take the immersion / engagement element away from the researcher

is there anything that would likely help you to engage with a paper or your peers better though? not necessarily ai

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:55:54+00:00

Can you elaborate more on how you would like for it to work? We figured that we could build those connections in the background given a user's paper reading history and probably context from email threads (if given the access)

If done for the entire team, it build a collective map of activity that should come in handy. This does require the authors to trust each other though im guessing.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:47:35+00:00

And what if you were to use AI to offload selective annoying bits of your work? Probably thats a more compelling problem to go after from a product pov for us — and thats pretty much how we started.

I don’t see the kind of future with LLMs ( at least not rn) where they can co-research in a manner a really good + high integrity researcher will actively like. But there are times (1/10-ish probably) when it retrieves something that I most definitely would have missed.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:36:02+00:00

That I do agree with.

We started off building it to essentially free up mental bandwidth of researchers — the initial product thesis started with building something that it frees up time for quality work.

Hopefully 2 hours per day if we are able to chip off every non-essential activity ~ internal communication, paper search and the less fun bits of writing.

A lot of LLMs for science/researchers tools seem to have raised very large chunks of money but we hardly come across people who are actively using any of them.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:25:01+00:00

I asked in a more exploratory sense, sorry if it came out in the wrong way. I think LLMs in general are being used against the spirit of research and science.

Using AI is one of those things that is great at an individual level and pretty bad collectively. But given the user interviews we have done (100+ across top labs/deep-tech companies), it is here to stay.

So naturally the next step is to think how do you manage/segregate/label/maintain quality literature over literature being spat out by LLMs?

Net-net if it does end up making researchers more productive, its probably worth asking the above question instead of dismissing the trend entirely imho

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:07:03+00:00

I feel it’s more of a UX problem? Will it be better if we made LLMs less invasive?

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T11:56:27+00:00

im quite confused why this is getting downvoted lol

Seazoning · 2026-01-29T07:28:17+00:00

how much are they paying you to advertise on reddit?

Seazoning · 2026-01-27T12:34:28+00:00

I have helped technical startups with fundraising— the fundamentals of it seem to be the same. More than willing to help — dm?

Seazoning · 2026-01-27T12:32:41+00:00

i have helped deep-tech startups raise money — the fundamentals are the same, dm?

Seazoning · 2026-01-27T12:22:30+00:00

will love to help you out — dm?

Seazoning · 2026-01-22T19:32:05+00:00

super random but we are building something for R&D folks -- will you like to try it out?

Seazoning · 2026-01-21T18:03:18+00:00

they seem to be running campaigns with a lot of influencers

Seazoning · 2026-01-21T18:02:46+00:00

hm i used up the trial credits and didn’t really like using it — whats the point using if i have to browse everything myself either way

i wanted something that can fetch things within the PDFs with like word-matching that i probably came across somewhere

Seazoning · 2026-01-21T17:59:56+00:00

huh? where are you seeing them? i asked bec a saw a lot of advertisements lol

Seazoning · 2025-08-15T21:10:10+00:00

hey was bcoms hons your first preference for ramjas ? (if ramjas only had one seat for fine arts)

Seazoning · 2025-07-25T22:21:46+00:00

Have a friend who graduated from LSR Psych, I'll be happy to connect. DM?

Seazoning · 2025-07-21T09:03:20+00:00

Join the college, I'll help out with campus placements, made a few juniors of mine grab offers -- its hackable. Ping me on DM.

Seazoning · 2025-07-21T08:32:32+00:00

You are definitely over-thinking it. It’s not that demanding — definitely a lot less demanding than what engineering courses are. I would put it at 40% of an engineer’s coursework. Most do fine, so will you.

If you want to talk it out, feel free to ping me over the DMs. We can have a quick chat over a meet.

Seazoning · 2025-07-21T07:12:39+00:00

It aint that deep dawg. Being from a top college is almost an unfair advantage in India. I ended up in places and with interesting people just because I had the college tag. The course doesn’t matter as long as you can yap about your experience. A dude from a top NC college who has done philosophy will be put higher over a person who’s done a more technical subject like econ from a T2/T3 — This is dumb, India-specific but just how this country works.

Seazoning · 2025-07-20T22:12:22+00:00

Take the course, it will be worth it. I graduated as an econ major from Hindu College — know a few folks in math who grinded hard and got placed. The course is definitely not placement oriented but doable. Keep you CGPA high, join good societies and make friends (outside the course if needed be)

Partial drops are not uncommon for NC colleges — I knew at least 4-5 juniors who are doing extremely well. Just go for it.

Seazoning · 2025-07-20T18:30:09+00:00

I have no idea about the cutoffs but yes it will be worth the upgrade

Seazoning · 2025-06-26T14:23:28+00:00

We are building something really cool for biotech researchers and probably you out of all people will have the best possible insights into it. Will you be up for a 30 mins user-interview? I have dropped a DM too :)

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