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!
- https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/
- https://github.com/sw-yx/launch-cheatsheet/
- https://react-typescript-cheatsheet.netlify.app/
i should be your ideal user.
i was very excited at the idea, but tried out the product and its clearly not there yet. but keep going.
specifics:
- i was looking for search scoped to my trove
- collaborative editing, if it exists, is not obvious
this is what i was looking for and i stopped once i didnt see them exist.
good luck!
It's focused on tips for learning resources, so it seems ideal for your cheat sheets. Currently, creating lists of SDKs, tools, etc. is not very well supported, but we are working on it. And I already use it for these things, see for example my list of Flutter libraries.[2]
I guess it's also kind-of similar to Trove, but it is more focused on creating one curated catalog of knowledge rather than personal recommendation lists (although that is also possible now via personal study profiles, e.g., [3]).
[1] https://knowledgepicker.com
We'll keep working!
There's also https://satchel.com/ in the B2B SaSS space.
Does anyone think there is a market for a wikipedia/wirecutter/consumerreports-like building tool, for communities to build recommendations by consensus?
You can use Trove to create similar things; for instance I have a trove on my recommended WFH setup [1].
Long term, we believe a general-purpose tool may have the most potential. The ability to search for any recommendation, and get back a result that's been vetted (i.e. "starred") by my network would be game changing, IMO. Obviously, we've got a long way to go before we can reach that level of utility.
Glad to see what I am not alone! World need our hearts, hands and minds!
Now Ontol in close beta stage and I testing hypothesis in tiny russian auditory. But after this discussion, I will speed up by 300% ))) Thanks!
(My dream is to meet you in YC batch)
Ultimately, we think there's a need for a multimedia publishing platform that's more lightweight than something like Substack or Medium—everyone has great knowledge to share, but few want to start their own newsletter.
All in (including the managed database) it's $65 / mo, which seems reasonable to me. (Could be even less, but I scaled up the droplets for this launch).
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
A separate point since I see you're interested in YC and similar startup culture, I know this was made as a deep dive, pretty detailed explanation of using Trove, but some small details can be skipped over because when you've got the benefit of both visual and auditory media, people can jump to answers far quicker than you can say them. e.g. explaining the concept of your top Troves. It's readily understandable without explanation (maybe even without a mention as people see it in the hotspot of the page as you scroll!) and at least personally, I prefer to see things and interpret them in videos as if I was scrolling through the page myself.
On your first point, we are in fact working on an extension to help make trove creation easier. I also think we can make the editor experience a lot better, especially for less technical users who don't know Markdown.
On your second point, you're totally right that the demo could be a lot more compact. Honestly, I know I could have made it a lot more polished / rehearsed — but since we're changing the product a lot at this stage, I figured I'll be making another one soon enough :)
Dig the UI, name, and logo, too. Nice work :)
For example, one trove that does this: https://trove.to/wes/trove/interesting-wikipedia-articles
Does anyone know of any open source solutions for similar KB user experience (quality as the first order primitive). COTs are fine... but me and everyone else are already on Sharepoint and that's not going away -- so any solution needs to integrate; at least on the surface... understandably there are indexes/embeddings that need to exist for KB retrieval.
Open to suggestions if you have more thoughts on this!
In some sense, we believe we are already a platform oriented around user-generated content—the act of curating and annotating something is itself a medium of expression. But yes, ultimately we would like to allow users to create blocks that are not just URLs (e.g. free-form text, images, audio, and video).
For now, our focus is on nailing the use case of sharing and curating great resources, since we believe they are the critical component of any great knowledge base.
What would make your product most valuable to me as both a consumer and a contributor would be a way to establish an aggregate reviews in a specific way, such as by editorial board or brand. A group of reviewers working together. Sort of like a subreddit. Not only being able to sort reviews by author or people I follow, but compare the rankings of the consumer reports team to the wirecutter team (examples of competing review brands.) I want to look at a masthead and trust their overall review quality standards, to find the reviewers I can trust.
A CMS to host reviews is cool. A way to collaborate and build complex team consensus is even better.