Purplelink

Devlog

Writing from
Purplelink.

Building notes, app updates, and the occasional essay from a one-person software studio in Atlanta.

Running your manuscript through Paper Review

Paper Review scans your manuscript before submission with four adversarial passes: figure integrity, citation cross-check, a multi-persona reviewer debate, and a prioritized checklist. Here is what using it looks like from a researcher's side.

One curation call per day

The Purplelink Daily Digest harvests 400-800 items daily and picks 20 to publish. Here's why the design uses a single AI curation call instead of scoring items one at a time.

Keeping up when your research crosses fields

Academic researchers who work across multiple fast-moving fields have no good daily briefing built for them. Here's why the existing infrastructure falls short, and what I built to fix it.

Daily Digest

What caught my eye today at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, research, and entrepreneurship. Curated every morning.

Where BibTeX errors actually come from

Most BibTeX errors don't come from researchers making mistakes. They come from the bibliography managers and export tools researchers trust to get it right.

Getting a research paper into an LLM without losing the math

PDF text extraction breaks on tables and equations. Here's how a researcher uses Purplelink's PDF to Structured Data tool to get clean, LLM-ready text out of an academic paper.

Seven free LaTeX tools, right in your browser

Compile to PDF, convert to and from Word, diff two versions, validate and build BibTeX, and render equations - no account, no install, nothing stored. They're live now.

What GlobePin does that no other travel app does

Every travel tracker on the App Store solves a piece of the problem. Most miss the same things. Here's what we built differently - and why.

Why we built Haea on-device

Your health data is the most personal data you have. Here's why we decided early on that none of it would leave your phone - and what that decision cost us.

The LaTeX editor that academics actually want

TeXShop is from 2000. Overleaf is a web app. Neither was designed around the manuscript workflow researchers actually live in. ModernTex is.

Starting Purplelink

Why I formed a software LLC, what I'm building with it, and the philosophy behind making software that's meant to last - not just ship.