mindmap.io

Hey Indie Hackers 👋 Mo here, founder of mindmap.io.

I spend many hours every day working with LLMs. The models get better every month. The chat box we use them through has not changed.

A chat is disposable by design. You have an exchange, you work something out, and you never open it again.

It is also the not the ideal shape for thinking. One answer gives you five follow-ups, you pick one, and the other four are gone. Want a second opinion from another model? That's a second subscription, a second tab, and a lot of copy-paste.

The models stopped being the bottleneck a while ago. The chat apps are.

So I built mindmap.io to offer an alternative way to interface with AI models. Roughly what you'd get if ChatGPT and a mindmap had a baby.

Every node on the canvas can be a live AI conversation, and the path down to it is its context. Your map becomes something I call a PromptMap:

🌿 Fork from anywhere. Ask all five follow-ups at once, each on its own branch, and the branch you forked from stays untouched.

🤖 Claude on one branch, GPT on another. Different models answer the same question side by side on one canvas.

🔭 Zoom out and the content zooms out with you. AI summarizes every node, so you see the big picture of your conversations at a glance.

✨ Let Milo do the work. Milo is the agent that lives on your map, and it can read, build and edit the whole thing for you.

It is still a mindmap. Nodes are plain notes, images or PDFs until you turn one into a prompt, so you can sketch your own rough outline and have AI fill in only the parts you are unsure about.

And since each path in the map is a conversation, you can open any of them as a normal chat. When you are done it becomes a branch on the map, instead of a scroll you never reopen.

I know a lot of you are probably using one of the popular AI apps, like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or have your own openClaw like bot like Grok bot or muse. So mindmap.io also comes with an MCP connector, so you can hook it up and use it from within your own agent.

Free to start. Go down every rabbit hole with mindmap.io.

The thing I would love to know: what is the first thing you expected it to do that it didn't? That answer is worth a lot to me and helps me improve the experience.

Cheers