An ideation canvas for builders

Map your next app, before you build the wrong one.

ThinkMaps turns app-idea hunting into a visual, branching graph — grounded in real research instead of guesses — so you validate before you write a line of code.

Click a niche to branch the graph — pick another, and this one freezes in place, not gone.

How a blueprint grows

Four moves, repeated until the graph knows what you're building.

01

Pick a niche

Start from six AI-suggested niches, or type your own to take the graph somewhere nobody's mapped yet.

02

Add context

Connect to Sub-Niche, Audience, and Monetization groups — each click narrows the graph toward something real.

03

Branch freely

Explore a path, then rewind and try another. The old branch grays out and waits — it's never deleted.

04

Catch the insight

As the graph fills in, insight bubbles surface the pain points your path keeps running into.

Everything past the first sketch

The graph is the start. Validation and shipping are built in.

Personal context

Founder Profile

Your skills, stack, time, and risk tolerance sit in a floating panel and quietly steer every suggestion toward something you can actually build.

Memory

Version history & snapshots

Name a snapshot any time. Roll back, diff two versions side by side, and read an AI summary of what changed and why it matters.

Together

Real-time collaboration

Invite a co-founder into the same graph. Everyone edits, comments, and branches live, with clear marks for who touched what.

Stress test

Red Team mode

Hand any idea a brutally honest review — market risk, technical traps, validation gaps — before you fall in love with it.

Sources

Research transparency

Every claim traces back to a Reddit thread, an App Store review, or a forum post. Raw quotes and confidence scores, always visible.

Ship it

Export superpowers

One click out to Notion, Obsidian, Markdown, a polished PDF, or a prompt that's ready to paste into Cursor or Lovable.

From graph to idea

What comes out the other end of a finished blueprint.

Sample idea card — illustrative

Shiftwell

Recovery and sleep tracking built around rotating shifts, not a fixed 9-to-5.

Core problem

Existing fitness apps assume a regular daytime schedule. Shift workers fall out of every streak, every reminder, every "morning routine" — the app is fighting their clock instead of reading it.

10x upgrade

A schedule-aware engine that re-times reminders, fasting windows, and sleep targets around the next shift, not the calendar date.

Monetization

Free tracking, paid schedule-sync with wearables and employer roster imports — tested at $6.99 and $9.99.

Scoped MVP, validation kit, and build prompts included with every generated idea.

Scored against the 10-question framework

Problem severity 9 Differentiation 7 Founder fit 8 Monetization 6 Market timing 8 Feasibility 7
Pricing

Map for free. Pay when you need the whole toolkit.

Pro is a one-time payment for one month of access — not an auto-renewing subscription. Nothing gets charged again automatically.

Free

One blueprint, 30 minutes

$0
  • One full Blueprint Graph
  • 30 minutes to edit, then read-only
  • Deleted automatically after 3 days
  • Full canvas exploration & idea hardening
  • Shareable one-pager & print/PDF
Start free
Pro

For builders who iterate

$15/month, one-time
  • Unlimited blueprints, no edit lock, never deleted
  • Combine multiple selections into one fused idea
  • Market Intel & Risk Analysis
  • AI-found fixes for surfaced risks
  • Detailed Build Brief for your MVP
  • Suggest Changes — revise with your own feedback
Go Pro

Pro lasts exactly one month from the day you pay, then your account automatically returns to the Free plan — nothing to cancel, nothing charged without you doing it yourself.

Ready when you are

Stop scrolling app-idea threads. Start mapping one.

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