I Built a Site to Find Hot Papers for Free. The First Run Cost $3.12.

I have access to a university library, so I can pull almost any academic paper I want. What I don’t have is a way to know which ones are worth pulling. So I asked Claude Code to help me build a small site that checks a handful of research fields every morning and shows me the papers that are actually generating buzz that day, not just the ones that happen to match a keyword search. ...

September 9, 2026 · 5 min · VibePapa