Re:Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on a...
by basch on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:43PM
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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.
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