Very cool, Paul. I think for it to really be successful you need a system to match the right reviewers/editors to the papers and create a more structured editing processing. An analogy is how github has provided a very functional set of tools to comment on pull requests that facilitate more productive collaboration.<p>I have been thinking about an idea somewhat related to this.: Unit tests for academic papers to ensure reproducibility.<p>There is a chronic problem in social science research (and I'm sure medical and other scientific research as well) where the data goes through many transformations and sets of analysis. Much of this is manually done and not reproducible.<p>My idea would be to enforce a constraint where you provide the script, the input, and the expected output and it validates this for all data transformation processes.<p>I didn't know you left Braintree and went to China. Let's catch up soon.
Hey HN, OP here. I'd really appreciate any general feedback on this. I also have a few specific questions which I'll leave as replies to this comment.