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Dear HN, Over the last few years, I've built an app called Giraf, for sharing and discovering cultural life [0]. "Cultural life" encompasses any kind of creative work (music, books, films, paintings, poems, podcasts, etc.), as well as events (concerts, film screenings, museum exhibitions, book events, etc.), places (museums, parks, bookstores, etc.), and the artists themselves who create these things. Giraf is essentially a knowledge graph plus a social network. The knowledge graph consists of all the cultural things just mentioned, as well as facts about relationships between them (e.g.…

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