Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?
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The field of molecular and biological simulation is far more than simply "Newtonian mechanics". There is indeed a field called molecular dynamics (MD) that relies on "classical mechanics" yet it's defined usually in the Lagrangian formalism. Furthermore, there has been tons of work over the past few decades in developing more accurate numerical approximation algorithms. There is a ton of a theory in this field and if you're interested, the "MD Bible" is "Understanding Molecular Simulation" by Daan Frankel.
Now, MD is just the tip of the iceberg. Almost all chemistry simulations are built entirely from making subtle approximations to quantum mechanics and carefully building up frameworks. For example, Hartree-Fock theory (HF), Density Functional Theory (DFT), Couple Cluster theory (CCSD(T)), etc. Then there is a field known colloquially as semi-empirical methods which are a sort of combination of the above two methods. And that's just on the side of chemical simulations (i.e. I'm excluding physics-specific simulations etc).
And now, more recently there has been effort in building machine-learned interatomic potentials, machine-learned density functionals, equivariant graph neural networks, etc etc.
If you're still interested in these class of problems, consider trying to build a good model for OMol25: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08762
A similar exmaple is "Make something people want". This is generally true advice in focusing your efforts on solving customer's problems. Yet, this is disastrous advice if taking literally to the fullest extent (you can only imagine).
"Get straight to the point. Ruthlessly correct my wrong assumptions. Do not give me any noise. Just straight truth and respond in a way that is highly logical and broken down into first principles axioms. Use LaTeX for all equations. Provide clear plans that map the axioms to actionable items"
As for your question, you just need to build a really cool product and eventually there will be people that will spread the word (like me :)).
But right now, I can't use it because it's broken :(
If it's fixed, I could definitely see this being useful for image viewers on servers since you normally don't have a GUI readily available
Yet, he has plenty of very good advice for free on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexHormozi.
Buying and reading a book won't hurt. Just make sure you are focused on creating something new and/or solving people's problems.
Paul Graham also has some excellent blogs on this topic: https://paulgraham.com/google.html
Of course, there is no guarantee that this will remain... regularly checking network activity before uploading a private document isn't too hard
Also for text, different fonts is a necessary requirement (and bolding, italics, underline, etc).
Also, it seems like I can't edit text boxes after creating them... I can't even tell if I've selected the text box (an outline would be nice).
Also the confirm modal for deleting a page is realllly annoying. You should just have it automatically delete the page and create an undo feature. (Basically store the original PDF, and store all the "actions" a user makes in an array, and then undo/redo the actions to the original pdf).
Also the arrow to close the page overview on the left side of the screen is very unintuitive. Why does the entire page shift to the left? The only reason I'd use that feature is to see my centered page more clearly. On this topic, a zoom feature is super important too.
Overall, the concept of a privacy-based PDF editor sounds really cool! Just note that for users to actually make a serious switch to this, you must at least match 1/4 of the quality of other PDF services like ilovepdf.com or smallpdf.com.
Good luck!