Emergent Mind pivots from arXiv AI assistant to a product lab with thousands of weekly users
mhmazur · x · 2026-10-16
Indie developer mhmazur launched a new homepage for Emergent Mind and announced a pivot.
- The site was known as an AI research assistant for arXiv, with a few thousand weekly active users and steadily growing MRR
- The author realized it wasn't what he wanted to keep building, and spent most of 2026 shipping small experimental projects under a "Labs" section
- The site's identity is now flipped: it's a product lab first, with the AI research assistant demoted to one project among many
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