Science/academia is a freaking weird place to build for:
Consumer: hates the infrastructure and tools that it currently operates with. Lots of complaints around rudimentary lab notebooks, ref managers, publishing flows, grant writing, generally high complexity etc,
Builder: have software products that function much more seamlessly, order of magnitude more simple UI/UX, and with web3 giving better ownership rights and self sovereignty (to an extent).
Result: consumers STILL complain about their current flow, and DON’T adopt the tools out there.
Whats the missing link??? Is it that products are fragmented around? Is it poor interfacing between builders and Universities? Is it the finite spare time for researchers to change their workflow? Thoughts?