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by wdencker 5y ago
Great list! Overlaps somewhat with my own (incidentally also titled “life advice”): https://trove.to/wes/trove/de40440b-ed21-4fdb-ba61-b5f83322b...
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by wdencker 5y ago
This is very much in the spirit of what we were trying to do with trove.to [1] — give people an easy way to curate & annotate lists of websites, and layer a social graph and endorsement system on top of those lists. The problem we encou
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by wdencker 5y ago
Hey HN! It's been 3 months since Trove's original Show HN [1], and since then we've released tons of new features and improvements including: - a fully-fledged WYSIWYG + Markdown editor - a Chrome extension [2] to take
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Show HN: Trove – Curate and collaborate on internet knowledge(trove.to)
1 points by wdencker 5y ago|1 comments
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Educational Youtubers(trove.to)
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by wdencker 5y ago
Agreed. I’m working on one such tool: https://trove.to/
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by wdencker 5y ago
Interesting observation. I wonder if these are issues intrinsic to the sites themselves, or if instead there’s some fundamental law that states once a publishing platform reaches a critical mass of popularity, it ceases to yield high-qualit
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by wdencker 5y ago
Interesting... where can I see Lex Fridman's shelf? It seems everyone and their mother is working on a knowledge management / list curation tool these days—well, including myself (I'm working on Trove [1, 2]). IMO, the key va
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by wdencker 5y ago
For an academic take on "how-to Linux", I'd recommend CMU's CS 15-213 course [1]. The systems class I took in college borrowed liberally from it, IIRC. Also, I'm putting together a master list [2] of the best resour
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by wdencker 5y ago
There's a ton of different note taking methods, as you can tell by the variety of responses here. People will evangelize one method as being superior to another, but I think you just have to try them out and see what works best for you
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by wdencker 5y ago
Yeah, for your workflow here I don't think there is any better solution, especially because of the Kindle / Goodreads integration (which Amazon will never open up to other services). As the Fred Wilson piece I linked above notes:
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by wdencker 5y ago
While it's a very difficult problem to crack, I do think there's a way to serve both the bookmarking ("single player") and recommendation ("multiplayer") use cases with one product. Fred Wilson has a good artic
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by wdencker 5y ago
Everything is run through 2 Digital Ocean droplets (one for the Next.js instance, and one for the Django REST server). I'm not a sysadmin by any means (I just followed a guide[1] online), but it seems to be working well enough. All in
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by wdencker 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback here! 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 k
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by wdencker 5y ago
Thanks for trying it out! The ability to upload your own screenshots / images is on our roadmap. For now, you can still include images hosted elsewhere on the web through standard Markdown syntax. For example, one trove that does this:
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by wdencker 5y ago
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
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by wdencker 5y ago
Thanks for trying it out! 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 u
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by wdencker 5y ago
Great to hear! I would love to hear what you think these new expression tools might be. Just spitballing here, perhaps you could record audio on a block instead of writing? Or are you thinking even more outside the box than that?
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by wdencker 5y ago
Thanks for trying it out, and for this candid feedback! You're right, the product is still a ways off from becoming a true "GitHub for knowledge" — things like "forking" a trove, live collaborative editing, and more
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by wdencker 5y ago
Not yet, though this is a direction we've been thinking about. We know a fully-fledged "knowledge base" may not only consist of annotated URLs — it may also contain the author's own thoughts / content (whether that
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by wdencker 5y ago
Thanks for your comment! In fact, we're working on a Chrome extension now. Beyond just allowing users to save things as they browse, we think there's some other interesting applications—for instance, if I came across a page that s
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by wdencker 5y ago
Thanks for your comment! Very cool. As an ex-PM the use case makes a lot of sense to me—Figma makes things a lot easier but still so much of the Design-Product back and forth happens over email, DM, and Google Docs. I do wonder if there is
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by wdencker 5y ago
Creator here, happy to answer any questions. 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
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Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic(trove.to)
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by wdencker 5y ago
Glad to hear it! The project is still very early (first released less than 3 weeks ago), so feedback and ideas are more than welcome.
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by wdencker 5y ago
What you're describing sounds a lot like https://trove.to/ (disclaimer: I'm the author of this project) For example, here's a "trove" on my favorite recommended everyday software: https:/&#x2F
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Substack and Crossroads for a Revolution(thistooshallpass.blog)
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The ultimate WFH setup(trove.to)
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Software that actually improves my life(trove.to)
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Bootcamps and ISAs: Economics, Challenges, and Opportunities(classcentral.com)
1 points by wdencker 6y ago|0 comments

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