Building a Social Reader Reality

By Bio-IT World Staff

February 17, 2016 | N of Everyone launched as a Kickstarter project in early June 2015. The social reader was fully funded by July and surpassed its goal by the time the Kickstarter was completed, raising $23,608. Today Reader lists more than 3.5 million papers available for reading, comment, search, and discussion.

“We had a very successful Kickstarter campaign and since then we have surpassed 700 users that have set up profiles in Reader,” David Mittelman, one of the N of Everyone founders, told Bio-IT World in an update. “Anyone can freely access our platform (you don't have to register as a user unless you want to comment or bookmark papers) on http://nofe.me and all you do is enter a DOI and the paper renders! You can copy and paste the URL and share it with others and collaboratively comment or review the content.”

The two other N of Everyone founders, Rudy Marsh and Gareth Highnam, are both working full time with N of Everyone now; Mittelman splits his time between N of Everyone and other ventures.  

“We are developing a Writer to author papers and also blog posts using the Reader platform,” Mittelman says. “We are also developing an API that will allow folks to add Reader and Writer functionality to their own blogs and websites.”

Mittelman continues: “Our goal long term is to facilitate discussion about science and we hope that our platform will do for science what Medium.com has done for blogging.”