Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic

Creator here, happy to answer any questions.<p>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 &amp; 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.<p>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&#x2F;Next.js app with a Django REST backend) — we would love to hear any feedback or ideas you might have!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trove.to&#x2F;trove&#x2F;trove&#x2F;why-we-built-this" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trove.to&#x2F;trove&#x2F;trove&#x2F;why-we-built-this</a>

The concept is great. One major thing stopping me from trying this out though is ease of putting something I see to within the CMS (which I am feeling like conceptualizing as?). A browser extension would go a long way towards helping this.<p>A separate point since I see you&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;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.

This is a very cool idea, and I was actually working on something similar a few years ago (a &quot;GitHub&quot; 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.

I enjoyed putting thought into curating Troves that weren&#x27;t just visual references. Would love to see more expression tools for collections beyond just adding annotation.

This is great. A feature request: screenshots. I&#x27;ve been on the hunt for a way to collect UI snippets and ideas and this is near perfect.<p>Dig the UI, name, and logo, too. Nice work :)

A lot of internal knowledge I work with can&#x27;t be moved to SaaS.<p>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&#x27;s not going away -- so any solution needs to integrate; at least on the surface... understandably there are indexes&#x2F;embeddings that need to exist for KB retrieval.

Really cool idea— have you considered adding a chrome extension? It&#x27;d be nice to save resources as I browse the web.

Awesome product! I really connect with the social &amp; 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?