Hi everyone, I'm Alec, co-founder of Afforai. The last time we launched on PH was back in July 2023 which you guys voted us #4 Product of The Day. It's almost one year anniversary and we went through many changes since then. We got over 50,000 researchers using Afforai, generated nearly a million dollars of revenue in our 1st year of business, raised capital from amazing VCs like Plug and Play Tech Center, Sputnik ATX VC, etc. So, to say the least, it all started from Product Hunt, we couldn't be where we are without you guys. The reason we're doing a 2nd launch is because my co-founder and I interviewed hundreds of our power users and developed the next version of Afforai based on insights learned from our users. Afforai's mission remains the same, to help enhance researchers around the world. Afforai is now reborn as an AI-Integrated research reference manager. My background in academia research and as a Gen-Z used to modern apps, Zotero and Mendeley posed many issues. I wanted to use Zotero during college but it was too overwhelming. And also, don't get me started on ChatGPT. ChatGPT as a general productivity tool is awesome but in research is super dangerous when the information is not verifiable. That's why I created Afforai. Here are some problems I have with Zotero and ChatGPT: ❌ Have to download a desktop app and sync files manually ❌ Outdated and complicated UI with a buggy web app ❌ Have to open a new tab to use ChatGPT and it provides false info ❌ The document storage provided is not enough Therefore, I set out to make improvements on Afforai: ✅ One unified web app to manage your research papers ✅ Auto-fill in papers' metadata to generate bibliographies (10K citation styles supported) ✅ AI integration to do literature reviews and research with reliable citations ✅ Unlimited storage and unlimited use of AI models like GPT-4, Claude v3, Sonnet, etc. We're offering lifetime access deals to Afforai on AppSumo for limited time so make sure to get yourself a deal before it's gone. Thank you for your support thus far, and we're committed as ever to continue creating tools that enhance researchers around the world and accelerate the world's research!

Sad I left science and back then I didn't have such a tool. We've been crazy about Mendeley though :) All the best Alec!

Congrats on your successful relaunch, Alec! Can you share more details about the AI models integrated into Afforai and how they enhance the research process?

Congrats on the launch! How does the AI ensure the reliability of the citations and literature reviews it generates, and are there any upcoming integrations with other popular academic tools?

So you are telling me... that I lived through college... using Citation Machine and Google Scholar...and I find this ONLY NOW!? Blasphemy!!! Congratulations on the launch!🙂

In a world dominated by ChatGPT rebrands, Afforai stands out as a unique product. It allows you to set up one LLM for queries and another for citations, though the mechanics of this setup are unclear to me. This clever approach offers a unique experience by enabling users to trace back to the original document, something other solutions typically don't provide.

Congratulations on all the success, Alec! Afforai's evolution sounds impressive. I'm particularly interested in the AI integration. - How does it ensure the reliability of citations and avoid the pitfalls of false information that you mentioned with ChatGPT? - Could you share more about how the lifetime access deal works on AppSumo?

This is really cool idea @alec_afforai. I wish I had this during my college days 😀

Congratulations to Afforai on your achievements! The unlimited storage and reliable citation features sound fantastic. Wishing you even greater success with this launch!🚀

Since the last release, there has been an explosion in this AI niche. What are your main competitors right now, and how do you envision you competing and staying competitive?

Congrats on launching Afforai! The ability to manage papers and research from anywhere is incredibly convenient. Especially friendly for people with an "P" personality type in the MBTI!

Wow Alec! You're making an impressive job with Afforai. It's super useful at the moment of making research and collecting data. Glad to see you helping on that. Keep on that way! Cheers

Research is such a catastrophic mess most of the time! I really appreciate this product for simplifying something that's a pain, but at the same time you don't always think of as being a pain until someone presents you with a simple solution like this. Awesome work!!

@alec_afforai Afforai looks like an exceptional AI-powered reference manager for researchers. The ability to collect, cite, and annotate papers from anywhere is incredibly convenient. What makes it stand out in terms of features compared to other reference managers?

Looks like a great online research product. We're currently developing a new business concept and hope to use Afforai to pull together and organize info for our business plan.

Hey guys! Great seeing you guys here again. The new version sounds awesome! It’s uncanny that our last launch was in the same week as your previous launch. And here we are launching again in the same week as you. All the best and rooting for you guys 🙌

@alec_afforai congrats, Congratulations, thank you for providing us with the information to write the research in a good way, and I am following you every moment.

If you don't have this, then you're really missing out big time. I know they market it as a research tool for researchers or students but I'm a marketing manager, and I also write content. I've been using perplexity for some time now which uses the SERPs to extract relevant and recent data but it wasn't able to actually extract info from scholarly sources, this thing does it and does it REAL good!

Afforai looks amazing for managing papers and research! Excited to see how it simplifies the research process. Congrats to the Afforai team on the launch!

I am using AFFORAI for research papers and for specific community support. Its impact is simply great.