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How are you keeping up with ML papers without letting arXiv, social feeds, or newsletters decide the whole reading list?
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How are you keeping up with ML papers without letting arXiv, social feeds, or newsletters decide the whole reading list?

I am trying to understand how ML researchers handle the paper firehose when they are not doing a targeted search.

Search works when you know the question. The harder workflow seems to be the lighter scan: which topics, authors, labs, journals/sources, or adjacent areas should stay on your radar?

I built Scollr around that second workflow. It is my product, so I am not pretending to be neutral, but the use case is pretty specific: follow research topics/authors/sources and scan a feed of papers that may be worth opening.

Link: https://scollr.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=reddit_researcher_feedback_may_2026&utm_content=reddit-researchml-paper-firehose-post

For people who read ML papers regularly, what would make that kind of feed useful or useless? Is the main problem coverage, ranking, freshness, topic control, or trust?

u/Familiar_Delay_3902 — 13 days ago
▲ 1 r/research_apps

I built Scollr, a free web and iOS app for discovering research papers in a personalized feed.

The basic idea is that you follow topics, authors, and journals/sources you care about, then Scollr gives you a feed of papers to scan through. It is meant more for lightweight discovery than replacing search or alerts.

It is still early, and any feedback is appreciated.

Web: https://scollr.com/ iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scollr/id6761957461

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u/Familiar_Delay_3902 — 18 days ago
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Hey everyone,

I built Scollr as a side project after my sister, a PhD researcher, kept saying she wanted a lighter way to keep up with papers.

It is not meant to replace Google Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, or Semantic Scholar. The idea is simpler: follow topics, authors, and journals/sources, then get a paper feed you can scan when you have a few minutes.

The product is still early. I am trying to get feedback from people who read papers, build niche tools, or have opinions on whether the onboarding and positioning make sense.

Current basics:

  • follow topics, journals/sources, and authors you care about
  • get a personalized paper feed with new papers plus older relevant papers
  • use separate tabs for latest papers, discover, and trending
  • try public web surfaces without signing up, or sign up to make the feed personal

Link: https://scollr.com/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=community&utm\_campaign=reddit\_researcher\_feedback\_may\_2026&utm\_content=reddit-sideproject

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scollr/id6761957461

I am looking for feedback on:

  1. Is the idea clear from the first screen?
  2. Does the onboarding ask for the right things?
  3. If you read papers, would a scrolling feed be useful or would alerts/search already cover this for you?
  4. What would make this worth using or not worth using?

No pressure to sign up. I am mainly looking for product feedback.

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u/Familiar_Delay_3902 — 22 days ago
▲ 1 r/bioinformaticstools

Hey everyone,

My sister is a PhD researcher and kept saying she wanted a better way to discover papers during downtime. Not another database search tool, but something closer to a personalized feed where you can casually scroll through relevant research.

So I built one: Scollr.

The basic idea:

  • follow topics, journals/sources, and authors you care about
  • get a personalized paper feed with new papers plus older relevant papers
  • use separate tabs for latest papers, discover, and trending
  • get in-app notifications when new papers match your interests
  • try it on web without signing up, or sign up to get the personalized feed

It is still early, and the recommendation/feed quality is the part we are actively improving. We recently made a round of speed and ranking fixes after feedback from the first group of users, so I am trying to get more researchers to test it and tell me what feels useful, wrong, or missing.

Link: https://scollr.com/

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scollr/id6761957461

I would especially value feedback on:

  1. Would you actually use a scrolling paper feed, or do alerts/search already cover this for you?
  2. Are the papers in your feed relevant enough after following topics/authors/sources?
  3. What would make this genuinely useful for your research workflow?
  4. Is there anything about the concept that feels annoying, untrustworthy, or not worth using?
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u/Familiar_Delay_3902 — 22 days ago