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hugoroussel / xirva

Host and publish your scientific papers on Xirva. HackFS 2021 winner project.
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How is Xirva funded? #2

Open alecbcs opened 3 years ago

alecbcs commented 3 years ago

Hi all! First off I'm a big fan of this project's goal. With hundreds of smaller academic journals disappearing off the internet in the past 20 years, independently archiving scientific data is incredibly important. However, I'm curious, how sustainable is this project? Obviously this is still early days and I'm sure you all have thought about this, but on the Xirva website it's mentioned that the backend is using IPFS and Fleek.co. And Fleek.co storage seems pretty expensive unless I'm missing something? IPFS definitely helps with backing up/distributing the data but unless other interested parties manually pin sets of papers is the main datastore just on Fleek?

hugoroussel commented 3 years ago

Hi thanks for your message, this is project is right now entirely self-funded, at least until the winnings of the hackathon run out around 1.8k$). I have trouble seeing how this could be monetized apart from receiving donations and or grants. To be entirely transparent this project is right now in standby mode, while I focus on other things. If you have any interesting ideas feel free to share!