Stories like “a developer built a cancer vaccine for his dog”…
That’s exactly why I love being part of the Indie Hackers community.
There’s always something interesting here:
new products, weird ideas, unexpected approaches.
This is where I first learned about tools like Claude, AI startups, and all these new possibilities.
I want to share something that might not be obvious:
👉 AI is massively accelerating academic careers.
If you ever dreamed of becoming:
- a biologist
- a physicist
- an astronomer
— now is probably the best time in history to try.
You don’t need a lab to start.
You need an idea.
Here’s my current workflow:
You get an idea / hypothesis
Check if it already exists (ChatGPT / Claude are surprisingly good at this)
If it’s new → write a paper
My results so far:
3 papers written “manually”
6 papers written with Claude
Outcome:
2 manual papers published
5 Claude papers currently in peer review
👉 So yeah… AI is actually not bad at this.
(And hot take: ChatGPT is worse for academic writing than Claude )
Now the part where I try to recruit you all:
👉 consider working on longevity / aging
Yes, I know — many people are skeptical.
But think about it this way:
If we manage to significantly extend lifespan,
you don’t just get more life —
👉 you get more time to build, fail, and build again.
More startups. More experiments. More chances.
