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!