83 Sciences: Materials discovery from the ~90% of experimental data that never gets published
We train materials discovery models on experimental data to help industry improve manufacturing performance at scale and help academics publish more.
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YC · launched Aug 3, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 49%) · 0 views
Niche: computational biology and chemistry software · 119 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▲ +17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Hard Tech
- Advanced Materials
- AI
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Could you build this?
No Extracting insights from unpublished dark scientific data requires deep materials science domain knowledge, custom scientific document/data parsers, and specialized graph/geometric neural networks for chemistry and crystallography.
What it would actually take: Building a real platform requires specialized multimodal parsers capable of interpreting messy instrument outputs (XRD, NMR, SEM, mass spec) and lab notebooks into standardized materials databases (CIF files, IUPAC nomenclature). It also demands custom graph neural networks (GNNs) or equivariant diffusion models (e.g., SchNet, Crystal-GFN) trained on physical properties, guided by teams with PhD-level materials science and crystallography expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #72 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
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