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You can read my entire story of Oversight’s inception and death over here.

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About the Product

  • CMS for research collaboration to allow scientists, faculties and students to collaborate on each other’s research through mentorship, internships or professional collaboration.
  • Crowdfund on your research or generate monthly income from your followers.
  • The primary platform is available at research.oversight.in.
We ran Oversight for 1.5 years (until Q1 of 2021). Until we fell short on distribution and sales and decided to quit. We shut down Oversight in March 2021.

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Culture

  • Permanently remote team. Nationally distributed in India.
  • Small team of 10 people. Including engineering and sales.
  • Directly coordinating with each other.
  • 2 week sprints.
  • Weekly standup calls every Monday.
  • Tickets on GitHub Issues.
  • Communication and coordination over Discord.
  • Directly solving users’ issues over Discord channels.

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Stack

  • NuxtJS for front-end
  • Golang for API, using Echo framework
  • Hasura for GraphQL
  • AWS (Hasura on EC2, RDS, ELB)
  • Razorpay for Payments

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Learnings

You can read my entire journey of Oversight, and the learnings I got from it, in detail over here.