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Roadmap

Build the network first, then the infrastructure.

The biggest risk is trying to build everything at once. The plan is to validate each layer before the next one.

PhaseNameFocusOutcome
0 Validation Interviews, positioning, prototype Confirm the strongest user problems
1 MVP Social, profiles, communities, research workspace, AI Q&A Prove engagement and utility
2 Knowledge Scientific search, evidence layer, knowledge graph Improve research discovery
3 Collaboration Research matching, teams, events, challenges Create network effects
4 Data & AI Advanced datasets, agents, analysis tools Increase scientific value
5 Institutions Enterprise and private research environments Monetization and defensibility
6 Global ecosystem Funding, labs, APIs, research marketplace Become infrastructure

MVP scope

  • User profiles, follows, posts, comments, questions and topic communities
  • Researcher and expert profiles
  • Private, team and public research workspaces
  • Document and literature storage with semantic search
  • AI assistant using curated sources and user-authorized data
  • Basic researcher and project discovery
  • Starter communities: healthy aging, strength, nutrition, skin health, brain health, biomedical research
  • First expert event or research challenge

Planned architecture

  • Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript
  • Backend: Python / FastAPI
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage
  • Search & graph: OpenSearch, vector retrieval, Neo4j
  • AI: Frontier LLM APIs, RAG, tool calling, agents