I love science & tech and how these improve lives. As a software engineer/entrepreneur, in the last years I thought of starting/contributing to some projects which scientists would find useful. Now I'm ready to work full time on this. Ideas revolve around * indexing all open research with free unlimited access, similar to arxiv-sanity.com but better; Other projects exist though: Google Scholar; semanticscholar.org, academic.microsoft.com, http://bit.ly/2XMpwLO * generative design * bioengineering (not sure exactly what, eg microbiota simulator) * materials simulator (eg how can we get a material having a given set of properties) I don't need immediate financial returns, but I do need the work to be used & have an impact in real life projects. What ideas do you have on how one can accelerate scientific research? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20189664 Points: 112 # Comments: 139 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2wTASSt via