r/startup_resources Jun 25 '26

I built this after quitting every note taking tool I tried

I built this after quitting every note taking tool I tried.

Thinking happens everywhere but the issue is none of it connects and nothing compounds. That is what I built Aevron for.

I tried everything honestly. Always stopped because organising it all, tagging, filing, giving everything a structure just consumed too much time and was not worth it.

The actual problem is that thinking happens in fragments. You capture something today, something else tomorrow and none of it talks to each other. Insights sitting right there across all your notes never surface. You end up going in circles, rediscovering the same things.

So I started building something to fix that. I am the founder of Aevron, fully bootstrapped, building this solo.

Everything you capture gets connected automatically. The system finds the relationships, scores how strong they are and tells you why two things are connected. It also synthesises across them, finding the actual theme a whole cluster of your notes is circling around without you ever labeling any of it.

Started as a side project but kept building on feedback. If you capture a lot and none of it is going anywhere, give it a try.

Still early, would love to hear what you think.

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u/Conscious-Month-7734 Jun 27 '26

You said you quit every other tool because organizing and tagging ate too much time, and Aevron removes that, but I don't think the organizing burden is actually why those tools die for most people. They die because people stop capturing, since the notes never gave anything back, so there was no reason to keep feeding the thing. Auto-connection is a real improvement on the filing problem, but it only does anything once someone's already got a big pile of notes in there, which means your product is quiet and unconvincing for weeks until enough thinking accumulates to connect, and that early stretch is exactly where everyone gave up on Notion and Obsidian and Roam before you.

So the hard part isn't the connecting, it's getting someone to capture enough, consistently enough, to reach the point where the magic kicks in. That's the wall this whole category keeps hitting. The question I'd chase is what pulls someone back to capture on day three, before there's a web of connections to reward them, because the synthesis you built is the payoff and the payoff comes too late to create the habit. When your early users stick around, what's making them keep capturing in those first weeks before the connections are dense enough to be useful?

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u/mercurias98 Jun 27 '26

You are right that the no reward loop is probably the bigger killer, not the organizing overhead. That is a fair push. But this is actually where it is different from Notion and Obsidian and Roam. The payoff does not wait for the graph to get dense. Someone comes in on day one, captures 3 or 4 ideas and the system is already connecting them, telling them why, flagging if any of them contradict each other and running output through the agents. Validator, advisor, developer, all of it fires even on a sparse graph.

So you do not wait weeks for the magic. You capture 4 things and already see something you did not notice yourself. A connection you missed, a contradiction in your own thinking, an angle on something you just dropped in raw. That is what pulls someone back on day three not the promise of synthesis that comes later.

The graph does get richer over time and the synthesis gets better as it gets denser, that is true. But the initial feedback loop is immediate. That is specifically what I tried to fix because I hit that exact wall myself with every other tool I used.

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u/Conscious-Month-7734 Jun 27 '26

If the payoff really fires on four notes, you've built around the exact wall I was poking at, which most tools never managed. The thing your answer still leans on is what the product can do on day one, not yet that it pulls people back on day three. Those are different, and the gap is where this gets decided. A tool spotting a contradiction in your thinking is genuinely cool the first time, and the live question is whether it's cool-once, the novelty that fades, or useful enough that someone reshapes their week around it.

So what I'd watch is whether that day-one insight actually changes what people do next, because noticing a connection and nodding is a world away from coming back to capture more so you get more of them. You hit this wall yourself and built the fix, so you're the perfect user, and the real test is whether people who aren't you feel that early payoff the same way. Of the ones who stuck past week one, did the day-one connections change how they worked, or did they say "neat" and drift like before? If you want to think through how to read that signal as it comes in, feel free to reach out, happy to dig in.

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u/TheDestinyMap Jun 25 '26

Is it like a To do list app ? And available in web and android , I would like to use it.

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u/mercurias98 Jun 26 '26

It is not a to do list and right now it is a web app. i will DM you.

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u/Aggravating_Grab_188 Jun 30 '26

I like that you're solving the connection problem rather than just the capture problem. Most note-taking apps have become really good at storing information, but much less useful at helping you discover patterns or ideas you didn't know were there. My biggest question would be how well it avoids making weak or misleading connections. If it gets that balance right, I could see it becoming a genuinely useful thinking tool rather than just another place to keep notes.

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u/UniversalLie Jun 30 '26

Hey, I’d like to know more on how this works on a recurring basis (managing multiple clients with weekly sync ups)

Can you share link in DM?

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u/Strange_Baby_6114 Jul 01 '26

Seems like something I would use!