Will Baker
@willjcb.bsky.social
Solo founder of Koan, an ideation app that helps you think more, not less.
Building and learning every day. #BuildInPublic
London.
Sign up for early access beta at koantum.ai
Building and learning every day. #BuildInPublic
London.
Sign up for early access beta at koantum.ai
A week of beta (alpha?) testing Koan has showed me the difference between a solution I think is neat and how a user actually uses the tool. A lot more work to do! #BuildInPublic
January 30, 2026 at 10:37 AM
A week of beta (alpha?) testing Koan has showed me the difference between a solution I think is neat and how a user actually uses the tool. A lot more work to do! #BuildInPublic
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Once you learn how to build things, the desire to keep doing it never goes away.
January 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Once you learn how to build things, the desire to keep doing it never goes away.
Today marks koantum.ai going live, or at least out of some kind of development stealthmode. This is very much still a beta, but Koan is the visual thinking app I've always wanted, and hopefully others might like it too. I'll talk about it more over the next few days.
#BuildInPublic
#BuildInPublic
Koan
koantum.ai
January 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Today marks koantum.ai going live, or at least out of some kind of development stealthmode. This is very much still a beta, but Koan is the visual thinking app I've always wanted, and hopefully others might like it too. I'll talk about it more over the next few days.
#BuildInPublic
#BuildInPublic
What a crazy month it's been building Koan. So proud of what this thing can do.
The ideation app I've always wanted is almost ready. #BuildInPublic
The ideation app I've always wanted is almost ready. #BuildInPublic
January 20, 2026 at 6:09 PM
What a crazy month it's been building Koan. So proud of what this thing can do.
The ideation app I've always wanted is almost ready. #BuildInPublic
The ideation app I've always wanted is almost ready. #BuildInPublic
I created a Blue Sky account to share my journey as I build an app that hopefully turns into a startup. I begrudgingly also started an X account at the same time, but I've never actually posted. Today I got banned on X for "Inauthentic Behaviour". As you can imagine, I'm absolutely devastated.
January 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I created a Blue Sky account to share my journey as I build an app that hopefully turns into a startup. I begrudgingly also started an X account at the same time, but I've never actually posted. Today I got banned on X for "Inauthentic Behaviour". As you can imagine, I'm absolutely devastated.
Today I hit my first internal dev milestone, whereby I no longer need to rely on thinking and planning in another app, because my thought process is able to live in Koan. The AI is able to suggest insights without cognitive outsourcing or loss of flow. Progress!
#PKM #BuildInPublic
#PKM #BuildInPublic
January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Today I hit my first internal dev milestone, whereby I no longer need to rely on thinking and planning in another app, because my thought process is able to live in Koan. The AI is able to suggest insights without cognitive outsourcing or loss of flow. Progress!
#PKM #BuildInPublic
#PKM #BuildInPublic
My app, Koan, visualises your thought process on a canvas.
My challenge for today has been wrestling with visualising k-neighbours and node ‘mass’ in a way that a user can understand and set manually. After a quick test, hypothesis is wrong, and Koan auto sets. Small feedback loops ftw.
My challenge for today has been wrestling with visualising k-neighbours and node ‘mass’ in a way that a user can understand and set manually. After a quick test, hypothesis is wrong, and Koan auto sets. Small feedback loops ftw.
January 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
My app, Koan, visualises your thought process on a canvas.
My challenge for today has been wrestling with visualising k-neighbours and node ‘mass’ in a way that a user can understand and set manually. After a quick test, hypothesis is wrong, and Koan auto sets. Small feedback loops ftw.
My challenge for today has been wrestling with visualising k-neighbours and node ‘mass’ in a way that a user can understand and set manually. After a quick test, hypothesis is wrong, and Koan auto sets. Small feedback loops ftw.
Hello World 👋. Adding my voice to the world’s town squares / echo chambers to map my journey of solo founding the app I’ve always wanted. #BuildInPublic is daunting, but hopefully it’ll be rewarding.
January 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Hello World 👋. Adding my voice to the world’s town squares / echo chambers to map my journey of solo founding the app I’ve always wanted. #BuildInPublic is daunting, but hopefully it’ll be rewarding.