This is nothing. My advice will be to still go ahead and finish what you have started. Make a decent product and market it as much as you can. You are in school

This is nothing. My advice will be to still go ahead and finish what you have started. Make a decent product and market it as much as you can. You are in school, start there first. Ask your colleagues to review it, they can be your first beta users. Getting published in TechCrunch or being on front page of HackerNews is definitely good. But think of how much actual researchers that is going to bring to the site who are actually going to do some work. This is no small market, you can have more than one players in this field. Even if you had launched first that wouldn't have changed a thing. You can always find a reason to quit. In the end, what your product does and how well it does it, matters. Everything else is just fluff. Just my two cents.