PaiperSwipe – Crowdsourcing AI summaries for 250M+ research papers

Name: PaiperSwipe – Crowdsourcing AI summaries for 250M+ research papers
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Author: blakecoffee

by blakecoffee·Feb 22, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●●SolidEye CandyCrowd Pleaser

Research paper Tinder—cute UX, but crowdsourcing AI summaries is the unproven bet.

Strengths

•Swipe interface is genuinely delightful and reduces decision fatigue vs. search.
•Permanent summary persistence: first person's AI analysis benefits all future readers.
•Covers all 250M OpenAlex papers—breadth is rare for research tools.

Weaknesses

•Crowdsourced summaries only work if adoption takes off; early on, most papers unsummarized.
•No evidence AI summaries are better than existing abstract-skimming or Citation context.

Post Description

Put together a tool for quickly browsing and filtering the Openalex library of research papers. Would love to get some feedback on the system and it's utility for others, I've found myself using it almost like a social media in the past few days. Cheers!