Eran Shayshon

Eran Shayshon

Founder, Strategist, Innovator

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Solo founder building Sensemaker, an AI mind-mapping tool that turns visual thinking into clear narratives. I am also a founder of a non-profit strategy and impact organization that addresses social and security issues. I developed a couple of platform that address social issues, and Sensemaker is my first real product on market โ€” launching May 28

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  • Sensemaker
    SensemakerThe mind map that reads your thinking and writes you back
    May 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMay 5th, 2026

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Launching tomorrow โ€” what's the fastest way you've gotten real feedback on a thinking tool?

Sensemaker goes live tomorrow (May 28, 12:01 AM PDT). It reads the spatial structure of your mind map clusters, hierarchy, edge density and writes back a coherent narrative from that structure, not just the text.

My question for this community: what's been the fastest, most honest feedback loop you've found for a tool that works on your thinking rather than your workflow?

What's your longest gap between 'I have a thought' and 'I have something coherent to send'?

Trying to understand where the bottleneck really is.

For me it's usually the moment right after capture I have the raw thought, but turning it into something I'd actually send or publish feels like a separate, much harder task. Sometimes that gap is hours. Sometimes it's never.

Curious where others feel the most friction: capturing the thought in the first place, structuring it, finding the right words, or just deciding it's "ready"?

Would love to hear real examples what kind of thought was it, and what got in the way?

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2mo ago

Solo founder with a strategy consulting background โ€” been quietly building for a year. Hi, I'm Eran.

Hi Product Hunt I'm Eran, a solo founder from Israel. My background is in strategy consulting, in both the non-profit and profit markets. I founded a think and do tank, Astarta, that works in Israel and North America. I've spent years helping people turn messy thinking into clear arguments. The main tool for that was always the whiteboard or the mind map.

The frustrating thing: after years of doing this work, I noticed that the structure of a mind map already encodes an argument. What you cluster together, what you connect, what you push to the margin that spatial logic is the thinking. But nothing has ever read it back to you.

So I built Sensemaker. It reads both your text and your spatial layout clusters, edges, hierarchy and writes you back a 200 600 word narrative that names the themes, surfaces the tensions, and ends with the conclusion your map is implicitly building toward. A year of building, a lot of rewrites, and I'm finally comfortable enough to tell people about it.

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