Check Your Draft
Verify academic citations before you submit
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Details
- External ID
- 1268526
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Check Your Draft
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3237349734414314
- Tags
- Education
- Fetched at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Check Your Draft, formerly CheckMyThesis, reviews academic references and highlights AI-writing signals for manual review. Upload a PDF or paste text to check source matches, find published versions of preprints, and export corrected BibTeX. Start with a free preview; paid checks are one-time purchases.
Enrichment
- Niche
- learning aids and exam preparation
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- citation verification tool for academic papers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Parsing citations and generating BibTeX is straightforward, but cross-referencing references against millions of real academic works requires integrating with academic indexing APIs (Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar) and implementing fuzzy matching algorithms at scale.
What it would actually take: The backend needs a PDF extraction pipeline (Grobid or PyMuPDF) tuned for bibliographic reference sections, paired with an asynchronous worker queue that queries the Crossref, OpenAlex, and arXiv APIs. The core difficulty lies in robust citation parsing from unstructured text across diverse academic styles (APA, IEEE, Chicago) and resolving author-title-year fuzzy matches to canonical DOIs without excessive false positives.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- Draftly · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- CiteWise · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- SafeRender · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CorrectMyPaper · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Please Cite Me! · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- LitSynth · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Comment Letter · ph · 2026-10-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PageIndex · ph · 2026-08-28 · 376 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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