Show HN: An open source app for navigating CS conferences
An open-source app that aggregates all workshops, talks, papers, and posters from CS conferences into one searchable interface with starring and cross-device sync. Built after the creator struggled to find CVPR talks across ~150 workshops. Also includes a robot picks feature using agent workflows.
Background
- CVPR (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) is the premier annual academic conference in computer vision, drawing thousands of researchers and industry attendees. It typically hosts ~150 parallel workshops alongside its main program, making it notoriously hard to navigate.
- "Scholar Inbox" is an existing tool that helps researchers track new papers matching their interests. The author wanted something that integrated workshop content alongside papers — which Scholar Inbox alone doesn't do.
- Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool (a sibling of ChatGPT-styled models). The author used it to rapidly prototype this app, reflecting a growing trend of non-professional developers shipping functional software with AI assistance.
- The app is deployed on Cloudflare Workers (a serverless edge-computing platform) and is open source, meaning anyone can fork it to create their own version for other conferences. The "agent workflows" feature lets users feed an LLM their starred papers so it can recommend additional sessions — a lightweight, conference-specific recommender system.