Ask HN: Validate my startup idea for a personal knowledge store

2 points by ga2arch 7 years ago | 2 comments

Hi, i'm thinking about developing a personal knowledge store, where you can simply send a link, text, images, youtube url ... and it will get indexed with additional metadata extracted from the source. Then it'll allow the user to fuzzy search the store including the metadata.

example 1:

you send a link to an article:

- article's title gets indexed

- article's content gets indexed

- article's machine extracted meaning/tags get indexed

example 2:

you send an imdb link to a film:

- film metadata is extracted (author, score ..), indexed

and so on for any kind of knowledge you want to store.

Then you can search and match into everything that it's indexed. Every stored information will have a custom view attached allowing the user to interact with it. (example, set that you have seen a film inserted or add a score.)

Would you pay for something like that? If so how much?

Cypher 7 years ago |

Sounds like evernote. Which I use for free.

ga2arch 7 years ago | |

Hi, thanks for commenting, the main difference would be that in evernote you have to structure your knowledge manually, by tagging, creating notebooks & co, here i'm proposing something that extracts info from every link/text you send. If you want to create a movie database, in evernote, you would have to manually insert every movie info you want to store and choose a sensible structure on how to store this data, with my idea you would just insert the link and all the extra data would be extracted and indexed allowing you then to search and create views.