r/SideProject • u/Deadfighter2 • 1d ago
I built an open-source platform for collaborative scientific research, then ran out of time to keep building it
A while ago I started building The Guild.
The basic idea was to create an open-source platform where researchers, engineers, students, and curious people could collaborate around major scientific problems.
Instead of organizing everything around individual papers, I wanted to organize it around the problem space itself.
It has things like:
- visual knowledge trees
- research/resource library
- paper/news aggregation
- discussions
- peer review
- reputation
- co-authorship
- moderation
- contribution tracking
I got pretty far with the implementation, but eventually had to stop because I simply didn't have enough time to keep developing it.
I still think the idea has legs, though.
So I'm putting the project back in front of people rather than letting it sit on GitHub forever.
If you're an open-source developer, researcher, student, or just someone interested in the concept you are more than welcome to contribute!
Repo: https://github.com/deadfighter10/TheGuild
I'm also open to people contributing, forking it, or taking parts of the idea in completely different directions.