Now I Get It
Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
Details
- External ID
- 47195123
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Now I Get It
- Website domain
- nowigetit.us
- Launched
- Feb. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 305
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9743935309973046
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Understanding scientific articles can be tough, even in your own field. Trying to comprehend articles from others? Good luck.Enter, Now I Get It!I made this app for curious people. Simply upload an article and after a few minutes you'll have an interactive web page showcasing the highlights. Generated pages are stored in the cloud and can be viewed from a gallery.Now I Get It! uses the best LLMs out there, which means the app will improve as AI improves.Free for now - it's capped at 20 articles per day so I don't burn cash.A few things I (and maybe you will) find interesting:* This is a pure convenience app. I could just as well use a saved prompt in Claude, but sometimes it's nice to have a niche-focused app. It's just cognitively easier, IMO.* The app was built for myself and colleagues in various scientific fields. It can take an hour or more to read a detailed paper so this is like an on-ramp.* The app is a place for me to experiment with using LLMs to translate scientific articles into software. The space is pregnant with possibilities.* Everything in the app is the result of agentic engineering, e.g. plans, specs, tasks, execution loops. I swear by Beads (https://github.com/steveyegge/beads) by Yegge and also make heavy use of Beads Viewer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314423) and Destructive Command Guard (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835674) by Jeffrey Emanuel.* I'm an AWS fan and have been impressed by Opus' ability to write good CFN. It still needs a bunch of guidance around distributed architecture but way better than last year.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- convert scientific papers into interactive web content
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The product extracts text and diagrams from an uploaded PDF, prompts an LLM with specific personas/tones, and renders the result as an interactive webpage.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MyVibe - instant publishing for web projects
Concerns raised: Output pages feel like tech buzzword landing pages rather than readable content, Diagrams become undecipherable/hard to parse visually, 7-second refresh loop bug on iOS (Firefox/Safari), Pages cut off halfway through due to prompt injection security filters, Unclear if output is fully generated without human tweaking
Feature requests: Interactive graph of references with linked pages for cited papers, Automatic generation of TikTok/YouTube short videos from papers, Support for 'vibe research' mode - exploratory deep-dive into papers for new insights, Interactive dialogue mode instead of static page generation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 68 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 69 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 117 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool · hn · 2026-07-21 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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- No other launches for this product.
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