I am familiar with both — as far as I can tell they're both great products in their own right, very focused on their particular niche (Kit for products, Satchel for B2B SaaS).

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.

[1] https://trove.to/wes/trove/the-ultimate-wfh-setup

I would be interested in what is sort of the inverse of Medium's latest action. I very much disagree with Ev William's statement of "the idea of an imprimatur that establishes credibility or trust. Trust is more important than ever and well-established editorial brands still have meaning. But today, credibility and affinity are primarily built by people — individual voices — rather than brands."

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.