LumaCite
Capture, organize, and cite your research in Chrome
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LumaCite brings your research into one online library. Save references with Capture & Cite for Chrome, organize papers with folders and labels, read and annotate PDFs, and add citations and bibliographies in Google Docs. Online tools also generate citations, extract reference lists, check metadata, and convert citation and library formats.
PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: academic writing and research tools · 139 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Education
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Could you build this?
Partial Folders, a browser capture extension, and a Google Docs citation add-on are buildable, but a reliable reference manager needs PDF annotation, metadata resolution across many databases, and a full citation-style engine. Those pieces are substantial.
What it would actually take: A realistic build uses a web app with a browser extension and a Google Docs add-on, storing references in a database with sync. Citation formatting can use an open-source CSL engine such as citeproc-js, and metadata lookup needs integrations with Crossref, PubMed, and similar sources. The hard parts are robust PDF annotation and metadata matching across messy sources, which require significant engineering time.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #171 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
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