Like I said, the current minimal product is hacked together from various pieces (scrapers, graph database generators, API wrappers, etc.) and is far from what it will be in a few weeks.
Things like adding were changed from manual to automatic (based on citations), and some of the interface remained the same. I suggest you check back with http://sciencetoolbox.org at the end of January.
Feature list:
Full-text search through the software (also by metadata, tags, citations)
More extensive/up-to-date indexing of citations
User profiles (for owners/developers and users)
Citation notifications
Usage visualizations (graph network of cited software, percent citations in a given category and much more)
Good luck with this project! As a (ex?)scientist, the problem I remember is looking if there is a mature-enough library and still in active development/support. (Usually there are many, but only a few actually useful.)
A few other ways to go is to scan arXiv for citations of software, https://pypi.python.org/pypi for scientific packages, etc.
Feature list: Full-text search through the software (also by metadata, tags, citations) More extensive/up-to-date indexing of citations User profiles (for owners/developers and users) Citation notifications Usage visualizations (graph network of cited software, percent citations in a given category and much more)
Should be fun :)