ResearchHub

We worked with Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase) to create ResearchHub. ResearchHub's main feed is a Reddit style forum where users can post previously authored scientific papers and discuss them, as well as create their own UGC, including things like micropublications all the way to full blown publications that can be assigned a DOI. ResearchHub is also building a suite of scientific tools like the ResearchHub Reference Manager, ResearchHub Electronic Lab Notebook, and more in order to accelerate the pace of scientific research. ResearchHub also has an ERC20 token called ResearchCoin which is "mined" by users through a rewards algorithm.

We've helped ResearchHub since day 1 design, implement, and build their webapp. We've gone through many product improvements and iterations where we've helped grow the product, the community, which has culminated in ResearchHub raising $5m. We've helped ResearchHub hire out their initial team and we've integrated seamlessly into that team, helping ResearchHub continue to build products for scientists.

At a technical level, the stack is a Django API with a frontend written in Next.js, where the Next.js app is deployed on Vercel, and the Django API is deployed via AWS. We run many EC2 servers with load balancers for our application cluster, as well as other services like Elastic Search, Elasticache for Redis, and Amazon RDS.

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