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Hey Ali and others who are interested, I've been working towards launching a startup called Bibdex (http://www.bibdex.com http://www.bibdex.com) for a little w
by sunir 16y ago
Hey Ali and others who are interested,
I've been working towards launching a startup called Bibdex (http://www.bibdex.com http://www.bibdex.com) for a little while now. I want to help all research-oriented fields to sift through the large number of publications.
It's amazing how many articles and manuscripts are published every day, not to mention blog posts and social commentary. Unlike the average person's surfing habits online, professionals in these fields are required to be on top of the available research, but most of the available research is not very good. That seems like a problem worth solving, and a potentially profitable one if industrial and institutional researchers are willing to pay to save their time and publish higher quality research.
I'm curious. Have you seen http://www.mendeley.com http://www.mendeley.com yet? If you have, why doesn't that solve the problem for you?
-- Sunir, Founder & Developer, Bibdex
P.S. I'm interested in having other people join as co-founders.
- jsarch 16y agoSunir, If you are not heavily invested in the name "Bibdex" for your company, you might want to look at changing the name because "BibDesk" (http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/) already exists as an usable product organizing publications. Specifically, the problem is that I would type/write/search for "bibdesk" when I hear "bibdex" and be rewarded by a product in the same market. -J
- sunir 16y agoYes, thanks for the feedback. As with all things, good names are in short supply. I've learnt that it's a very common thing for grad students to build citation management software, and I fell into that trap as well.