Search our curated library
When you ask a question on ShoMe, our search engine starts by searching our curated library of resources using AI search. Each resource in our library is a link to a third party website (blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.).
Our volunteer community of current and exited founders (real humans!) vets each resource before it's added to our library. This keeps noise off our app. Checkout our curation criteria below.
Curation Criteria:
- Tactical, Actionable, Insightful: Provides sufficient detail and insight that a founder can decide whether it applies to their circumstance and then act on it. Isn't empty fluff. Isn't vague.
- Credible: The source is has demonstrated experience in doing what they're writing about. Usually a founder, VC, accelerator, or operator with past success or a track record discussed in the article.
- Tracks Silicon Valley best practices: Advice given by a recently exited founder in Silicon Valley often differs from advice given by an angel investor in Dallas. Many founders are specifically looking for the best practices that are used within Silicon Valley, as this is what many of the earliest stage US VCs are expecting and where much of the zeitgeist around "how to start a startup" lives.
We're constantly exploring and indexing the web to find new articles that meet these criteria to add to our library!
We use AI search to traverse our curated library (rather than keyword search), as we believe this method provides more relevant results on average. We show a relevance score for each set of results, which reflects how well our underlying AI search software estimates that our results answer your question. This score isn't always accurate, but provides a starting guideline.
Expand to the world wide web
Our curated library is still a work in progress. Sometimes when you search, we won't have any good links for you. (Eep, sorry!)
When this happens, we run a wider search of the Internet, using an LLM web search tool called Exa.ai. The results from this wider web search aren't curated or vetted by us. However, they still sometimes include great links and are worth a skim – we think they're better than Google's results.
If you find a result you love from this wider web search, leave us feedback, so we can add it to our library!
Still stuck? Get human support
If you still can't find what you're looking for, shoot us an email (support [at] shome.how)! We'll do our best to help you find a link that answers your question.
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