kvnshu / garp

A platform for the research community. Keep track of papers you want to review, and discover what your peers are reading.

garp

Inspiration

With experience on machine learning research projects and talking to peers, we sought a better way for the sharing of information and learning in the field of academia

What it does

Researchers can add and remove papers from a reading list, and can add other researchers on the platform and view in a feed what other researchers have added to their reading list.

How we built it

garp is a web CRUD application built with Supabase, Next.js, React, Tailwind, and NextUI. With varying levels of technical background on this stack, we pair programmed and relied on Git's version control features to make regular progress on the app.

Tech Stack

Client: React, TailwindCSS, NextUI

Server: Next.js

Backend: Supabase

Challenges we ran into

Our biggest challenges were in the first 10% of the project, setting up the database and implementing user authentication. We initially tried Vercel Postgres but ran into issues with the limitations of the free plan.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are most proud of implementing the social features of the app, adding/removing users and seeing what other users are reading.

What's next for garp

A number of features would be valuable for users of the app, including the development of a browser extension, the ability to add notes to saved papers, folders to organize papers, and automated title-generation based on the URL.

Authors

• @kvnshu
• @ogao9
• @peterw135
• @KennyKeni

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Feedback

If you have any feedback, please reach out to us at kevx [at] umich [dot] edu