[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":353},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-12848656":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":41,"post_text":44,"what":45,"said":75,"maker_in_thread":208,"shape":215,"grid":219,"attempts":311,"same_week":316,"maker_shows":42,"maker_hidden":345,"reader_version":346,"card":347},"12848656","Academic Bio","A simple static site generator for academic webpages","title","Show HN: Academic Bio – A simple static site generator for academic webpages","http:\u002F\u002Fmy.academic.bio","my.academic.bio","jpallen",1478024042,2016,113,41,318,2264,15,"notable","web_saas","site builder for academics","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"academic website","static site generator","academic homepage","publications import","loved",0.343,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},11,14,0,1,26,{"idea":37,"execution":39,"pricing":40},{"positive":38,"critical":34},7,{"positive":34,"critical":33},{"positive":33,"critical":33},[33,42,34,33,33,33,33,42,42,42,42,42,42,33,42,42,42,43,42,43,43,33,43,33,43,43,43,33,33,42,33,42,33,42,43,33,33,33,43,43],3,5,null,{"problem":46,"audience":53,"pricing":61,"motivation":67,"time_to_build":44,"stack":71,"openness":72,"stage":73,"team_size":74},{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Academics want a personal website without learning HTML, Jekyll, GitHub or WordPress complexity","maker",[50],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},"12849121","I set up academic.bio to try to make it easy for academics to have a website without needing to learn anything new (html, Jekyll, github, etc) and without the complexity of…",{"value":54,"source":48,"evidence":55},"Academics and researchers",[56,57],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"12852654","aaggarwal","Hi James, this is pretty neat. I think this website could be a big hit among all the graduate applicants since they all are looking for creating a personal academic website at…",{"value":62,"source":48,"evidence":63},"Small monthly or yearly fee to cover hosting; front-end open source only if demand exists",[64],{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},"12850934","I plan to charge a small monthly (possibly yearly) fee to cover hosting, yes. If there's demand for the front-end being open sourced, then yes. I suspect that the people who'd be…",{"value":68,"source":48,"evidence":69},"Make it easy for academics to have a website without learning new tools or using WordPress",[70],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},[],"open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":76,"objections":104,"requests":118,"questions":166,"alternatives":185},[77,93],{"value":78,"source":79,"evidence":80},"Clean, simple, and keeps site ownership with the user through open options","commenter",[81,85,89],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"12853253","p4bl0","I've wanted to do the dame thing for years because I'm always frustrated by colleagues or other academics with no online presence. This is awesome. The resulting web pages are…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"12851104","protomikron","I have to admit, I am normally not impressed by \"Show HN\"s from a practical viewpoint (most are technical demos, I think), but your page really stood out. I really like, that you…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"12849344","dougk16","Bah every time I have a good idea it's taken :) I recently went through the pain of setting up a simple static website for a math professor[1], and it really is depressing how…",{"value":94,"source":79,"evidence":95},"Fills a real need for academics without personal websites",[96,100,103],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"12850662","raghavkhanna","Great work! As a grad student I can definitely say it addresses a need :). For the publications, importing from bibtex might be a useful alternative, since all the fields are…",{"id":101,"by":83,"text":102},"12860370","Also, the fact that the web page exists is already quite an achievement. I'm amazed by the number of academics who don't have a personal web page, and this kind of service may…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},[105,112],{"value":106,"source":79,"evidence":107},"Publications on personal pages go out of date unless the tool is automated",[108],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"12850592","1337biz","The biggest problem I see with academic websites is that their publications are always out of date. Google scholar has always more recent publications listed. Do you have any…",{"value":113,"source":79,"evidence":114},"Open access papers belong in dedicated repositories, not personal pages",[115],{"id":116,"by":83,"text":117},"12853356","Open accessing papers should not be done (only) on personnal web pages. Those may disappear and are less discoverable (or at least, the world depends on Google Scholar to find…",[119,126,141,149,159],{"value":120,"source":79,"evidence":121},"Import publications from BibTeX",[122,123],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},{"id":124,"by":83,"text":125},"12853294","For import: bibtex of course, as most bibliography managers can import\u002Fexport bibtex, maybe also orcid, as it is becoming the standard \"unique id\" service for academia. Also, you…",{"value":127,"source":79,"evidence":128},"Import from Google Scholar",[129,133,137],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"12849684","rubidium","I'd probably import from google scholar, which allows export to BibTex, EndNote, RefMan and CSV.",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"12849786","ylem","I would second google scholar, with a way to edit imports. Will you add an option to export to PDF--it's nice to have a single source of truth. For example, I maintain my CV as a…",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"12856206","jclos","Thank you for this. I have been wanting to build something like this for a long time, and never got around to do it, and you made it better than I would have done anyway. As for…",{"value":142,"source":79,"evidence":143},"Import from ORCID",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"12849271","BorisVSchmid","Looks nice! I would suggest to enable import from ORCID. Seems to be the best initiative around to give a unique identifier to scientists. http:\u002F\u002Forcid.org\u002F0000-0003-0452-623X",{"id":124,"by":83,"text":125},{"value":150,"source":79,"evidence":151},"Allow universities to offer it under their own domain",[152,155],{"id":153,"by":83,"text":154},"12860359","Another option would be to allow institutions (e.g., universities, labs) to subscribe to your service to offer it to their members under their own domain name with a custom…",{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"12851561","dorianm","Pretty amazing, maybe you could let universities have their own domains and I think this would be a huge success!",{"value":160,"source":79,"evidence":161},"Parse publications pasted in APA or MLA format",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"12851541","pazimzadeh","I like it. I would love it if it was possible to paste in my publications in APA or MLA format and have the service parse the details out rather than having to manually enter in…",[167,174,178],{"value":168,"source":79,"evidence":169},"Will it be free forever, and how will hosting be paid for?",[170],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"12850912","soneca","Just out of curiosity, will it be free forever and you will pay for the hosting? Do you plan to get some revenue from it somehow? Also, do you plan to open source the whole…",{"value":175,"source":79,"evidence":176},"Will the whole project be open sourced?",[177],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},{"value":179,"source":79,"evidence":180},"Can HTML from this tool be inserted into OpenScholar sites?",[181],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"12850163","pen2l","This is great. I would love to have this. But my univ gives me an 'OpenScholar' access... (http:\u002F\u002Ftheopenscholar.org\u002F) it's like this weird cms that I can't seem to figure out.…",[186,190,197,204],{"value":187,"source":79,"evidence":188},"Jekyll and GitHub Pages",[189],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},{"value":191,"source":79,"evidence":192},"Lektor",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"12850347","zokier","Just curious, did you check out Lektor? I haven't experience with it, but I think it is designed just for that kind of scenarios.",{"value":198,"source":79,"evidence":199},"jemdoc",[200],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"12850462","SamPutnam","This looks good. http:\u002F\u002Fjemdoc.jaboc.net\u002F comes to mind as one precursor that a number of academics have chosen, but it falls in the (marginally) more complicated categories of…",{"value":205,"source":79,"evidence":206},"OpenScholar",[207],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},{"comments":42,"answered":34,"key":209},[210,211,212],{"id":51,"text":52},{"id":65,"text":66},{"id":213,"text":214},"12849560","That would be amazing, thanks!",{"commenters":216,"max_depth":43,"maker_replies":42,"first_comment_mins":217,"lifespan_hours":218},32,52,118,[220,222,225,229,233,237,240,243,245,248,249,252,253,255,256,257,258,261,263,264,266,267,268,273,274,277,279,280,281,283,285,286,288,291,292,294,299,302,305,306,308],[51,33,33,221,11,34],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[223,33,42,221,224,33],"12849160","chowes",[226,33,34,227,228,33],"12849260","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fidea","athesyn",[230,33,33,231,232,33],"12849351","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","slig",[234,33,33,235,236,33],"12850801","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","personjerry",[238,33,33,235,239,33],"12850876","kctess5",[241,33,33,235,242,33],"12885834","bbcbasic",[145,33,42,244,146,33],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[246,33,42,244,247,33],"12849549","JorgeGT",[130,33,42,244,131,33],[250,33,42,244,251,33],"12849720","falkod",[134,33,42,244,135,33],[171,33,42,254,172,33],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[65,33,33,254,11,34],[153,33,42,221,83,33],[163,33,42,244,164,33],[259,33,42,221,260,33],"12851766","mikesickler",[58,33,43,262,59,33],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea",[124,33,42,244,83,33],[138,33,43,265,139,33],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fexecution",[86,34,43,262,87,33],[116,34,33,235,83,33],[269,270,43,271,272,33],"12849279",2,"maker\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone","newyearnewyou",[213,270,33,271,11,34],[275,270,43,276,272,33],"12849648","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[278,270,43,276,83,33],"12853325",[90,42,43,262,91,33],[194,42,33,231,195,33],[282,42,33,231,91,33],"12855758",[97,284,42,244,98,33],4,[182,43,33,235,183,33],[109,287,42,244,110,33],6,[289,287,33,235,290,33],"12852173","santaclaus",[201,38,42,221,202,33],[156,293,43,262,157,33],8,[295,296,33,297,298,33],"12849592",9,"other\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign","michaelmior",[300,296,33,297,301,33],"12850189","freetonik",[303,296,33,297,304,33],"12851022","kleiba",[101,296,43,262,83,33],[82,307,43,262,83,33],10,[309,31,43,262,310,33],"12853113","tugberkk",[312,315],{"id":313,"t":314,"points":287,"comments":33},"12840286",1477943553,{"id":4,"t":12,"points":14,"comments":15},[317,322,326,331,336,340],{"id":318,"name":319,"points":320,"category":321},"12834327","sudo-touchid",347,"security_privacy",{"id":323,"name":324,"points":325,"category":20},"12843466","My first web app",297,{"id":327,"name":328,"points":329,"category":330},"12803860","Zone Messenger",194,"consumer_social",{"id":332,"name":333,"points":334,"category":335},"12838152","Fast Style Transfer",184,"ai",{"id":337,"name":338,"points":339,"category":321},"12802785","Android 'root' phones via dirtyc0w exploit",143,{"id":341,"name":342,"points":343,"category":344},"12842797","KQ",116,"dev_tools",false,"v2",{"id":348,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":345,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":28,"s":349,"top":18,"kw":350,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":270,"strip":351,"url":9,"mix":352,"praise":78,"objection":106,"sub":21},12848656,0.34,[24,25,26,27],"0310000333333033353550505550030303500055",[31,32,33,34],1793990949561]