Eran Shayshon

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?

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?

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.