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Inkr – Securing Research Positions

2 points by himanalot 2y ago

himanalot 2y ago
I built Inkr to solve a major pain point in academia: finding research collaborators and opportunities. While platforms like ResearchGate exist, they don't actively help match researchers with active funding opportunities. Key features: - Real-time analysis of 10,000+ active NIH research projects - AI-powered matching based on research interests and expertise - Smart email templates that auto-populate with relevant research context Tech stack: - Next.js 14 + TypeScript - Supabase for auth/database - Tailwind + Shadcn/UI for styling - LangChain for AI processing The problem became clear during my time in research: despite $40B+ in annual NIH funding, many labs struggle to find qualified collaborators, while talented researchers miss opportunities because they lack connections. Inkr bridges this gap by making research networking more systematic and data-driven. Looking for feedback from the HN community, especially around the collaboration workflow and AI matching system. By the way, I'm getting a domain soon—I just haven't decided which one yet. Let me know what you think!
holameraj 2y ago
i built free tool which might be used in this process https://crawlai.space/ https://crawlai.space/
- laksdfjbnwelkfj 2y ago
  I think the idea of ai for like web scraping is great ngl
  - holameraj 2y ago
    its really cool it feels like powerhouse
- himanalot 2y ago
  I might use this if it had an api. Most of my data comes from the NIH api though. would be cool to find out if you could use this to use that data to find the LinkedIn profiles of the people that come up, as I don't have the funds to use Aviato.
  - holameraj 2y ago
    i can provide the api if it works for you
    - himanalot 2y ago
      yes, this would be really helpful.
      - holameraj 2y ago
        yea sure i'll ping you up on email
  - holameraj 2y ago
    you can use it to analyze any kind of data , i had so many pract. uses like i have a perplexity clone using it for my personal use and also for a tldr kinda search engine some of them added to automate the content creation based on live event , i think it has really cool future if worked fine. im thinking of opensourcing it
    - himanalot 2y ago
      im thinking maybe of using your api to get LinkedIn data on the PIs to show
      - holameraj 2y ago
        so is your main goal is only to find linkedin profiles ??
laksdfjbnwelkfj 2y ago
ngl this could be really good

2 points by himanalot 2y ago

I built Inkr to solve a major pain point in academia: finding research collaborators and opportunities. While platforms like ResearchGate exist, they don't actively help match researchers with active funding opportunities. Key features: - Real-time analysis of 10,000+ active NIH research projects - AI-powered matching based on research interests and expertise - Smart email templates that auto-populate with relevant research context Tech stack: - Next.js 14 + TypeScript - Supabase for auth/database - Tailwind + Shadcn/UI for styling - LangChain for AI processing The problem became clear during my time in research: despite $40B+ in annual NIH funding, many labs struggle to find qualified collaborators, while talented researchers miss opportunities because they lack connections. Inkr bridges this gap by making research networking more systematic and data-driven. Looking for feedback from the HN community, especially around the collaboration workflow and AI matching system. By the way, I'm getting a domain soon—I just haven't decided which one yet. Let me know what you think!

holameraj 2y ago

i built free tool which might be used in this process https://crawlai.space/ https://crawlai.space/

laksdfjbnwelkfj 2y ago
I think the idea of ai for like web scraping is great ngl
- holameraj 2y ago
  its really cool it feels like powerhouse
himanalot 2y ago
I might use this if it had an api. Most of my data comes from the NIH api though. would be cool to find out if you could use this to use that data to find the LinkedIn profiles of the people that come up, as I don't have the funds to use Aviato.
- holameraj 2y ago
  i can provide the api if it works for you
  - himanalot 2y ago
    yes, this would be really helpful.
    - holameraj 2y ago
      yea sure i'll ping you up on email
- holameraj 2y ago
  you can use it to analyze any kind of data , i had so many pract. uses like i have a perplexity clone using it for my personal use and also for a tldr kinda search engine some of them added to automate the content creation based on live event , i think it has really cool future if worked fine. im thinking of opensourcing it
  - himanalot 2y ago
    im thinking maybe of using your api to get LinkedIn data on the PIs to show
    - holameraj 2y ago
      so is your main goal is only to find linkedin profiles ??

laksdfjbnwelkfj 2y ago

ngl this could be really good