Show HN: Thought Canvas – Develop Ideas with AI (Mind Mapping)

[thesunnez]

I created Thought Canvas to explore ideas I've had but felt the standard AI chat interface was too linear and dense. The mind map layout used in the app reframes this human-AI workflow.

To use Thought Canvas, you start with an idea or area to explore and a few next branches are suggested by AI. You can continue along those suggested paths by clicking the green ticks. Or type in your own branches at any level by clicking the plus button to explore alongside AI.

It's early days, but I'm finding the app useful to explore ideas more broadly, using AI for inspiration and refining my own thinking. Please feel free to use and provide feedback on how it can be improved. Thought Canvas is mostly built with Claude Code using the awesome React Flow library. Haiku 4.5 is currently wired in for AI suggestions.

[blourvim]

zoom out on new branches is too disrupting.

I like it for idea exploration

Something for adding details under a branch could be nice

[thesunnez]

Thanks for the feedback blourvim! I'm continuing to work on the interaction flow--- agree it is jarring to zoom in and out. I'm trying to arrange the current path more clearly on the screen. Good idea also with adding details or even links. Especially when you go deeper into the map, it could be nice to have notes attached as a sort of summary of the map. Will let you know once these have been resolved.