We scroll every day, why not learn something meaningful? Soch curates research articles using AI and presents them in a familiar, effortless feed. With simplified summaries, AI-generated visuals, and personalized interests, discovery feels natural, not overwhelming. Turn mindless scrolling into moments of insight.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built Soch because I think something fundamental has gone wrong with how we spend our time online.
Today’s social media isn’t just a way to pass the hours, it actively steals them. By design, feeds warp our sense of time: endless scroll, unrelated posts, autoplay, and notifications make hours feel like minutes and leave us with almost nothing memorable to show for it.
While thousands of fascinating research papers are published every day, most of us never read them because they’re dense and inaccessible.
Soch is my answer to that.
It uses AI to transform complex research into bite-sized, memorable content you can actually enjoy scrolling through:
• Clear, human-friendly summaries (no PhD required)
• AI-generated visuals to anchor ideas in memory
• Optional deep dives when you want them
• 165+ categories so your feed reflects you
What if your scrolling didn’t make time feel shorter, but made you feel more alive and informed? That’s what I’m trying to build with Soch.
I’d love your feedback, and more importantly, what topics would you explore first? 🚀
Congrats on the launch, Vishal! The 'discovery vs. consumption' balance is such a hard problem to solve, I love that you're tackling the information overload angle.
Quick question: Is a dedicated mobile app on the roadmap? For a news/discovery tool, being able to consume these summaries offline (or via text-to-speech) during a commute seems like a killer feature.
Upvoted! 🚀
Interesting idea! A development suggestion: I would find a feature for specifying not just interests but also information sources very useful. Each of us trusts certain media and reads those specifically. But no one reads all media completely — we choose interesting sections/topics within them. If AI could do this for us, it would save a lot of time.
At first when I read the description, I thought it will check me scrolling instagram reels and make research based on my scrolling about different topics I watched and tendencies in society 😅
The idea of meeting people where they already are (the scroll) but changing the outcome from distraction to insight feels spot on.
I like that you’re not forcing “learning mode,” just making discovery feel natural and lightweight. The mix of summaries + visuals + optional deep dives is a smart balance.
Curious to try this with topics like AI, psychology, and climate. Feels like the kind of product that could quietly change daily habits over time.
Congrats on the launch! I really like the intent behind Soch, reframing scrolling as something that leaves you with ideas instead of draining attention feels timely and refreshing. How you think about long-term learning here, does Soch optimize more for quick insight per scroll, or for helping certain ideas resurface and compound over time as people keep using the feed?
The “research-as-a-feed” UX + Expo build is a clever way to make papers feel approachable.
At scale (tons of new papers daily), best practice is RAG grounded to the paper PDF with metadata filters + citation-first summaries (linking to exact sections) + confidence/“can’t verify” fallbacks to avoid hallucinations.
Are you storing per-paper embeddings + provenance (page/paragraph spans) for retrieval, and how do you evaluate summary accuracy/drift over time?
Congrats on the launch @eccentricdz ! - Love the creativity and the idea of the product.
Cool launch! Love the concept and definitely see the value in stopping doom-scrolling. Curious how you make the scrolling here not feel like homework
Any plan on making your app available in Europe?
How do you design the experience so it doesn’t become another attention trap—what concrete product decisions did you make to optimize for “feeling informed” rather than maximizing time-on-app, and how do you evaluate whether you’re succeeding?
I'm also working on a solution to the same problem but l've admit your solution's creative is android coming?
applaud the bravery in developing this against the human nature haha!
bug: when i click into the detailed page of the research, seems there's no way to get out of it. (I'm using iphone 16 pro).
also echoing @busmark_w_nika 's comment, it's gonna be a huge uphill battle to convert the behavior of the mass. Maybe in the future a potential direction can be directed towards students/youth where these topics can be more tied to their curriculum? As a parent I'd be more at ease knowing they are scrolling something remotely related to their school works than tiktok...
Oh man I really love the design! Is there a personalization feature? The more you use it, the more personalized posts, visuals and language get for you?
making dense research visually scannable is a massive unlock for accessibility. do you link back to the original source papers for users who want to verify the AI summaries?
Love this concept—turning doomscrolling into curated research snacks feels spot on for how people actually use their phones today
