Rodrigo Schmitt
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Ohara

Reads a researcher's CV and profiles, maps the subjects they're ready to learn next, and builds a feed of papers, books and talks, each with a one-line reason it is there.

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Demo needs no account. Trial: 14 days free, then $7.99/mo. Cancel anytime in your account. 50% off with a .edu email.

The idea

Keeping up with a field means reading the right ten papers, not the newest thousand. Ohara starts from what you have already done: it parses your CV and public profiles into a research profile, proposes subjects that build on it, and lets you pick the threads you want.

The feed then pulls from open sources such as arXiv, OpenAlex and Open Library. Every item says why it was chosen, and your saves and "more like this" votes reshape the next feed.

The library of Ohara, in One Piece, is the island of scholars; this one is a reading room.

Screens

Ohara feed for the sample researcher Lena Marsh: a greeting with the count of new papers, counts of new, saved and followed subjects, and paper cards with a Why this line and save and vote buttons
Feed for the demo persona, a sample PhD candidate, fetched once from real sources and frozen.
Ohara feed on a phone with filter chips and a bottom tab bar for Feed, Subjects, Saved and Profile
On phones: the same feed with a four-tab bar.
Ohara subjects on a phone: expandable subject rows with checkboxes
Subjects open as expandable rows.
Ohara Subjects page: Bayesian optimisation for materials expanded, with five sub-topics and checkboxes, and a Build my feed button
Subjects: pick the threads you want in your feed.

Plans

Free: 1 profile; 3 subjects; Weekly feed.

Scholar: $7.99 a month or $69 a year (save 28%). Unlimited subjects; Daily feed; 10 research briefs a month; Email digest; 50% off with a .edu email.

Every new Scholar subscription starts with a 14-day free trial. Compare every plan, and the All-Access bundle, on the pricing page.