Researchers spend more time writing papers than doing research. Bibby is an AI co-author for researchers. Forget the writing grind. Bibby digs through literature, drafts, and refines your paper. It will also find you citations and tell you mistakes before reviewers do. Think of it as a friend who knows research inside out, is by you at 3 am, and is deeply familiar with your work. Bibby has 200M+ citations, 800+ journal templates and is trusted at Yale, MIT, Stanford and Cambridge.
Co-authoring is often messy — different writing styles, different comfort levels with AI assistance. Can individual authors set their own suggestion preferences within a shared document, or does one setting apply to the whole team?
the real test for a research AI co-author is when your sources directly contradict each other. citation conflicts are where the actual thinking happens.
What databases does the citation search pull from? Is it just Semantic Scholar or does it
also search PubMed, arXiv, CrossRef?
This really resonates! writing is honestly the most draining part of research sometimes. Love the idea of having something that not only drafts but actually understands literature and catches issues before reviewers do. Feels like the kind of tool you’d want next to you at 3am when the deadline is way too close.
We launched our own product on Product Hunt yesterday, so we definitely feel the launch day nerves, sending you lots of support. Congrats, this is a super meaningful direction
I work in tech and had no idea researchers still use tools from the 90s to write papers.
This seems like it should have existed 10 years ago. The research community deserves
modern tool
Really curious about the photo-to-equation feature. How well does it handle complex multi-line equations? And does it work well with matrices or piecewise functions?
I've been using Overleaf for 5 years and the lack of AI features has been increasingly
frustrating. Every other tool I use has gotten smarter except my paper editor. Excited to
try this. 🎉🔥
As someone who interact daily with grad students, the number of hours I've watched them waste on LaTeX errors instead of actual research is painful.
Hopefully this will encourage everyone to author more research papers.
This is very interesting, I would be on steroids if this has it's own memory too. So I can fetch context across my research lines.
Curious to know, what LLM is powering the autocomplete and reviewer? Is it a fine-tuned model or are
you using something like GPT/Claude with custom prompting?
If this existed earlier, i might have actually enjoyed my PhD instead of just survivin it) Thats a gem
Hey Product Hunt! Community 👋
I'm Nilesh. I was a researcher at Yale University.
I calculated once how much time I spent that year not doing research.
Managing citations. Fixing compiler errors. Reformatting for a different journal. Emailing .tex files back and forth.
It was months.
Not hours. Months of a PhD that I will never get back. I did not want to lose my entire train of thought every single time.
That's why I built Bibby for the scientific community.
What it does:
✍️ Autocomplete that understands your paper as you write
🔁 Reword any sentence with one click
✅ Grammar and academic tone fixes, right where you're typing
🤖 Bibby Chat: an AI co-author that knows your entire paper and helps you draft, restructure, and think
📸 Snap a photo of any equation, get it formatted perfectly in seconds
📚 Add citations from 200M+ papers with one click, no copy-pasting
🔍 Deep research mode: finds sources, spots gaps in the literature, and traces full citation trails
📝 Writes your entire literature review with real cited references
📄 Generates your abstract from your full paper in seconds
📊 Describe your data in plain English, Bibby builds the table
✅ AI paper reviewer trained on top conference standards, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR
🔧 Catches writing and formatting errors in real-time and fixes them with one click
📄 Upload any PDF, Bibby reads and analyses it.
👥 Collaborate with your whole team in real-time, no conflicts, no versioning chaos
🔀 Sync with GitHub, with automatic commit messages handled for you
⏪ Full version history with visual diffs and one-click restore
📋 5,000+ publisher-approved templates including IEEE, Nature, APA, NeurIPS and ACM
🔐 Your research never trains our models. Ever.
Trusted at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford and others.
Built by a researcher, for researchers.
How many hours did you waste last month on something that had nothing to do with your actual research writing?