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Free tool for researchers to analyze gel/blot images and create presentation and publication figures therefrom.


We have less than 100 daily active users. One of our users complained about a bug that showed up on Safari.

My intuition is to just direct all my users to use Chrome – I guess if their problem is burning enough this shouldn't be a problem for, but I wanted to hear other founders thoughts re: new users just discovering our site for the first time, which seems to be happening more frequently.

It fully doesn't work properly on Firefox and does weird things on Safari.

Works properly in Chrome.


While you should probably fix it for both, you're probably going to have to fix it on Safari at least, if you have any plans for taking it mobile. iOS browsers are all based on Safari, even if they're branded as "Firefox", "Chrome", or whatever.


No plans for taking it mobile.


We should just throw everyone in a hazmat suit and continue our everyday lives!


The number of new covid sites is actually a huge problem. Regardless, no site will be successful without speaking to actual users. And in this case my users are the researchers.


The site is called http://sciugo.com


I'm building Sciugo, which will help COVID-19 researchers share data and find relevant results.

http://sciugo.com/ gives biomedical researchers a repository to store and share their research.

The research is formatted in a way that emphasizes reproducibility and reusability by other researchers.

The site is being built for general biomedical research and its especially important during the current outbreak!


sciugo.com is a site which gives biomedical researchers sharable repositories for their research.

If the site gains traction amongst COVID-19 researchers, it will be the first time researchers document their results in a format that can be easily be reused by other researchers across the world forever.

Any data shared on sciugo.com can be exported with a few mouse clicks to a clean spreadsheet for reuse by other researchers.

If this platform for data sharing gains tractions, it will significantly accelerate the rate of scientific discovery!

We're always looking for feedback from biomedical researchers. Also, we're hoping to recruit software engineers to help build the product.

If you have any questions, I'd love to chat more!


is sciugo your site? there is almost no information on the page about why i'd want to use this. Show me other papers or organisations that are using it, allow me to browse datasets. Have a paragraph about what it's for. Also, there needs to be some sort of guarantee that the data will survive for a long time, even if your company/organisation dies/you lose interest. Maybe partner with archive.org, or automatically generate dois for dataset versions.


Yea, you're right, thanks. We're working on this dataset browsing.

What don't you like about the lefthand side?


Learning to use the command line is a requirement for all serious programmers and its great you want to start.

It can be pretty overwhelming to use the terminal so you may have to some reading to get yourself really comfortable.

I usually go to books/(book pdfs) to help me start out because they have conceptual explanations about the syntax which really helps my understanding.

Maybe this one would be good? The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction

Once I'm comfortable based on the book, using StackOverflow and other websites becomes much, MUCH easier.

In the process, you'll learn BASH which is used for scripting.


> Maybe this one would be good? The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction

Free PDF in the author's (William Shotts) homepage: http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/


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