Hi Mirror I completely agree with you regarding the distribution of research and the following questions and statements:
how can we ensure that the research and creativity on this forum are discovered, discussed, and cited by more enthusiasts more effectively and efficiently?
It’s quite simple: make it more visible
However, for traditional researchers, it may not be very user-friendly, primarily due to the challenge of knowledge discovery. So, how can this be improved?
more ideas for promoting research on this forum.
which all inscribe well in the perspective of the project I created thanks to the large support provided by Flashbots: mev.fyi, the open-source MEV research chatbot announced here. I indexed all the content from mevfyi’s vector database which the chatbot can access.
This database is displayed on the MEV Research Hub and the underlying code indexing this content is available in this set of repos (the data repo more specifically).
mevfyi has a Twitter bot that users can directly tag in-thread to ask questions while having the thread as context, further helping the distribution of that vast knowledge network as you coined it.
What would be helpful at our stage of both mev.fyi and likely ethresearchbot, are the following elements:
- even greater discovery, sharing, namely:
- among our first target group namely blockchain research hobbyists and connoisseurs, where I expect Twitter and Discord channels to have the largest expected impact
- and cascading groups of traditional academic networks and universities (including student organisations). I do not have a large network there though I expect a sales approach with dozens of cold emails to have an impact
- leverage SEO expertise (which I do not have)
- should anybody have other channels and go-to-market strategies in mind please suggest them on that same post. I expanded a bit on the topic here about mevfyi
- grants to fund both maintenance and future development of such open-source public goods
- from a feature perspective
- from a reach/marketing perspective
- and more that could provide a better reach per dollar/eth funded