AI Academic Paper Summarizer & Simplifier

    Inspiration: "Research & Summaries" is a stable demand service. Scholars, students, and journalists need to quickly understand core ideas of complex academic papers, but reading full papers is extremely time-consuming.

    Target Customers: Graduate students, PhD students, scholars, researchers, science journalists, anyone needing to read extensive academic literature.

    Pain Points:

    • Limited time: Too many new papers published daily to read them all
    • Language barriers: Papers filled with complex terminology and obscure sentence structures
    • Missing key points: Difficult to quickly extract core contributions, methods, and conclusions from 30-page papers

    Solution (Micro-SaaS): AI reading assistant designed specifically for academic papers. Users upload PDF papers or paste ArXiv links, AI automatically reads full text and generates structured, accessible summary.

    MVP Core Features:

    • Input Methods: Support PDF upload or URL input
    • Structured Summary Output: AI-generated summary with standard sections:
      1. TL;DR: Core idea in one sentence
      2. Problem Addressed: Research background and motivation
      3. Methodology: Experimental/research design
      4. Conclusions: Main findings
      5. Limitations: Authors' acknowledged research shortcomings
    • "Explain Like Undergrad" (ELI-Undergrad): Accessible version using analogies for core concepts
    • Copy/Export: Easy summary saving to personal notes

    Development Investment: Medium. PDF parsing and long text understanding are key.

    • Core Engine: Claude 3 Opus or Google Gemini 1.5 Pro for large context windows enabling full paper processing

    Traffic Acquisition Strategy:

    • Primary Keywords: "academic paper summarizer", "AI research paper summary", "pdf summarizer for students"
    • Target Communities: r/GradSchool, r/MachineLearning, academic Twitter

    Competitive Advantage: Highly structured summary format following academic thinking paradigms, more researcher-focused than general "PDF chat" tools.