u/Rns70

I will test your app if it will be useful to me, drop it below

I will happily test your app if it will actually be useful to me or my life. Please specify how it will be useful to me.

Who I am:

- Programmer that uses Claude, Figma, VSCode.
- Working on building an open canvas productivity app. The next step with that building integrations with other apps e.g. Slack
- Finding distribution of my product to be the hardest thing right now
- Create TikTok content
- I love learning new things and reading
- I go gym and run

And conversely, if anyone wants to test my app I would be more than happy. It is for people that want to plan and maintain dashboards on an open canvas. [Causal] (https://causal.so) - made for builders like me.

I will happily test your app if it will actually be useful to me or my life. Please specify how it will be useful to me.

Who I am:

• Programmer that uses Claude, Figma, VSCode.
• Working on building a open canvas productivity app. The next step with that building integrations with other apps e.g. Slack
• Finding distribution of my product to be the hardest thing right now
• Create TikTok content
• I love learning new things and reading
• I go gym and run

And conversely, if anyone wants to test my app I would be more than happy. It is for people that want to plan and maintain dashboards on an open canvas. Causal

This year I spent about 1000 hours migrating everything onto a single canvas: todos, sketches, half-formed ideas, project maps, reference nodes. I had originally only built it for myself but then my team loved it so much I expanded it for commercial use and the company I work for bought the license. Worth doing a proper post-mortem.

The case for canvas

Links in Obsidian and backlinks in Roam give you a graph view, but you rarely look at it. The canvas forces you to spatially locate things relative to each other - you can't just fire-and-forget a note into a tag hierarchy and pretend you'll find it. When you place a card, you have to make a spatial decision. That decision is low-cost but it encodes a relationship that a flat folder doesn't.

The biggest concrete win: I stopped losing context between work sessions. The canvas for a given project had its open questions, its relevant resources, and its task list all in view simultaneously. In a vault, those are three separate files you have to open.

The honest tradeoffs

Search is terrible compared to a text-indexed vault. Obsidian's search is fast and precise. On a canvas you're browsing, not querying.

Backlinks and transclusion don't really exist. If a concept is relevant to three projects, you either duplicate the card or accept that you're always going to navigate to the "original" and then back out. Neither is great.

Scale is the real problem. A vault can grow to thousands of notes and stay usable. A canvas beyond a certain density becomes opaque rather than clarifying. I now keep separate canvas-per-project rather than one mega-canvas, which is a bit of a concession.

How I'd characterize the split now

Canvas: good for active thinking, planning, and in-flight work. The visual layout is doing cognitive work you otherwise have to do in your head.

Vault: good for reference, archives, and anything you'll want to search or resurface months later.

I don't think it's either/or, but treating them as substitutes is where most people run into trouble.

A pattern I keep seeing: I build a genuinely useful AI dashboard for my own workflow and it works well enough that people ask for it but it's not polished enough to ship as a product, and I have no interest in spending 3 months turning it into one.

What if there was a marketplace where you could sell the scaffolding instead? Not a finished app, but the working parts: the scripts that pull and clean the data, the prompts that drive the agents, the configuration files that wire it together. Someone who wants a crypto sentiment dashboard or an operations monitoring board buys the infrastructure, hooks it up, and has something that runs in a day instead of building from scratch.

The precedent exists — people sell Notion templates, Figma kits, n8n workflow exports. This would be the same idea but for AI-native artifacts.

Curious whether anyone has seen a version of this work, or would be interested in something like this? I would not mind giving building this a go if theres genuine interest.

The product is a canvas-based productivity app aimed at founders and engineers. The technical side is covered. What's missing is someone who can think about who to reach, how to reach them, and actually do the work to get there.

1. Where do people actually find cofounder candidates with strong distribution backgrounds? Most cofounder matching platforms skew heavily technical. YC's cofounder matching has some distribution people but it's sparse.
2. How do you vet for distribution skill in a first or second conversation? Anyone can claim they're good at growth. What questions or past work actually signals it? Happy to share more about what I've tried — cold outreach through LinkedIn (mostly wasted time), local startup events, a few referrals that didn't pan out. Curious what actually worked for people here.

I've tried cold outreach on LinkedIn (mostly wasted time), local startup events, a few referrals that didn't pan out. Curious what actually worked for people here.

Building a productivity canvas called Causal.

PROBLEM: Tools like Notion and Linear are either loved or hated. In my opinion, they have too much structure. For something like planning which can require more freedom this can be a bad thing. I built an infinite canvas for planning and productivity. A

WHO IS IT FOR: Developers, product engineers, students

FEATURES:

• Create and store markdowns, images, audio files, links, tables, comments, to-do lists on an infinite canvas.
• Built in AI agent to help with planning
• Unsorted column for ideas that might not have a perfect fit
• Built in file opener

Who I'm looking for: Solo founders, product engineers, or researchers who think spatially and feel constrained by row-and-column tools. What I need from testers: real use — bring your actual project or research workflow, break things, tell me where it falls apart. I'm not looking for "great job!" feedback. I want "this specific thing doesn't work when I try to do X."

What you get: direct access to me as the founder, fast fixes, and influence over the roadmap before it locks in. And as a token of my gratitude, free access for life.

If this sounds like your problem, drop a comment or DM and I'll get you in.

Building a productivity canvas called Causal.

PROBLEM: Tools like Notion and Linear are either loved or hated. In my opinion, they have too much structure. For something like planning which can require more freedom this can be a bad thing. I built an infinite canvas for planning and productivity.

WHO IS IT FOR: Developers, product engineers, students

FEATURES:

• Create and store markdowns, images, audio files, links, tables, comments, to-do lists on an infinite canvas.
• Built in AI agent to help with planning
• Unsorted column for ideas that might not have a perfect fit
• Built in file opener

Who I'm looking for: Solo founders, product engineers, or researchers who think spatially and feel constrained by row-and-column tools. What I need from testers: real use — bring your actual project or research workflow, break things, tell me where it falls apart. I'm not looking for "great job!" feedback. I want "this specific thing doesn't work when I try to do X."

What you get: direct access to me as the founder, fast fixes, and influence over the roadmap before it locks in. And as a token of my gratitude, free access for life.

If this sounds like your problem, drop a comment or DM and I'll get you in.

What do you guys currently use for managing your output across all your different sub - projects? e.g. Notion, Mira, Linear? Working on a SaaS with a small team means we are dealing with the marketing, distribution, design, product engineer, and development all in one. We personally have found that different departments require different applications and that can sometimes lead to friction e.g. my friend working on the design has no idea how to use linear and has to tell me each bug through word of mouth. Was wondering if theres an app that is made to integrate across departments.

p.s. As much as I would love for everyone to tell me the productivity app they are building right now, I would prefer consolidated recommendations - apps that have been quality tested.

What do you guys currently use for managing your output across all your different sub - projects? e.g. Notion, Mira, Linear? Working on a SaaS with a small team means we are dealing with the marketing, distribution, design, product engineer, and development all in one. We personally have found that different departments require different applications and that can sometimes lead to friction e.g. my friend working on the design has no idea how to use linear and has to tell me each bug through word of mouth. Was wondering if theres an app that is made to integrate across departments.

p.s. As much as I would love for everyone to tell me the productivity app they are building right now, I would prefer consolidated recommendations - apps that have been quality tested.

What do you guys currently use for managing your output across all your different sub - projects? e.g. Notion, Mira, Linear? Working on a SaaS with a small team means we are dealing with the marketing, distribution, design, product engineer, and development all in one. We personally have found that different departments require different applications and that can sometimes lead to friction e.g. my friend working on the design has no idea how to use linear and has to tell me each bug through word of mouth. Was wondering if theres an app that is made to integrate across departments.

p.s. As much as I would love for everyone to tell me the productivity app they are building right now, I would prefer consolidated recommendations - apps that have been quality tested.