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👋 Hey Product Hunt! I’m Rakesh, founder of Cicadus — excited to finally share what I’ve been building! The Problem : Research today is overwhelming. You search a topic → get hundreds of papers → but no clarity on which ones actually matter to your work. So you end up: - Spending hours filtering irrelevant papers - Reading blindly without knowing what’s useful - Struggling to figure out where to...
CicadusAI Literature Review & Citation Mapping for Researchers
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Why do we still read papers blindly in 2026?
One thing that always bothered me during research: We search → get a list of papers → start reading those papers . But before reading, the real questions are: Why is this paper even relevant to my work? What role does it play in the bigger research landscape? Is it foundational, supporting, or just noise? Most tools stop at “here are the papers.” Cicadus tries to go one step further: Explain...