Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic
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Re: Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic
#2Creator here, happy to answer any questions.
Trove is a project I’ve been working on for about 3 months now. The initial idea was borne out of a frustration my cofounder and I had while researching startup ideas. We would often come across excellent resources that related to one of the ideas we were investigating, but we found there was no great way to organize these resources, annotate them with our own thoughts, and share our annotations with one another. Text messages were unwieldy for long-form thoughts, Google Docs & Notion didn’t provide enough structure, and emails quickly became buried. In a world of abundant information, simply being able to sift through and organize it all is now the biggest challenge.
What we believe is missing is a “GitHub for knowledge” — a place where we can not only store our own knowledge, but also build from others’ ideas [1]. Trove has a long way to go as a product (right now, it’s a relatively simple React/Next.js app with a Django REST backend) — we would love to hear any feedback or ideas you might have!
Re: Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic
#3This is a very cool idea, and I was actually working on something similar a few years ago (a "GitHub" for design documents, mainly aimed at Product Managers). My enthusiasm fizzled because of extreme competition in that sector, but I really like what you guys built.
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#5Really cool idea— have you considered adding a chrome extension? It'd be nice to save resources as I browse the web.
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#6This is a very cool idea, and I was actually working on something similar a few years ago (a "GitHub" for design documents, mainly aimed at Product Managers). My enthusiasm fizzled because of extreme competition in that sector, but I really like what you guys built.
Thanks for your comment! Very cool. As an ex-PM the use case makes a lot of sense to me—Figma makes things a lot easier but still so much of the Design-Product back and forth happens over email, DM, and Google Docs. I do wonder if there is still something missing.
Re: Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic
#7Really cool idea— have you considered adding a chrome extension? It'd be nice to save resources as I browse the web.
Thanks for your comment! In fact, we're working on a Chrome extension now. Beyond just allowing users to save things as they browse, we think there's some other interesting applications—for instance, if I came across a page that someone I follow had in their troves, I could then see their notes / annotations directly in the browser.
Open to suggestions if you have more thoughts on this!
Re: Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic
#8Creator here, happy to answer any questions. Trove is a project I’ve been working on for about 3 months now. The initial idea was borne out of a frustration my cofounder and I had while researching startup ideas. We would often come across excellent resources that related to one of the ideas we were investigating, but we found there was no great way to organize these resources, annotate them with our own thoughts, an…
It looks like it lets you organize and comment on URL's? Is it of any use if you have content that isn't already on the web and isn't neatly tagged by URL? E.g. your own photos.
Re: Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic
#9I enjoyed putting thought into curating Troves that weren't just visual references. Would love to see more expression tools for collections beyond just adding annotation.
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#10Awesome product! I really connect with the social & knowledge sharing aspect of the platform that enables a more meaningful way of navigating the web. Are there any plans for expansion into user generated content to expand on the knowledge hub vision?