Please rate my idea; a thesis idea but can be a startup

I am building a web based system that indexes operations research topics both algorithms and problems. It also indexes short info about topics, articles and books on the topics, real world practices, software packages and tutorials around the web. Do you think can I transform this thesis idea in to a startup? Can you give me some advices to improve this system?

There is no live system yet because i am still developing it with magnificent Play Framework...