The Ideabox
The Setup
I have too many ideas. Apps, courses, workshops, blog posts, businesses, side projects, things I want to build for other people. They live in Notes, Notion, voice memos, Threads drafts, and the margins of notebooks I’ll never look at again.
The problem isn’t generating ideas. It’s triaging them. Knowing which ones to pursue, which to park, and which to let go. Every productivity tool I’ve tried assumes you already know what’s important. I needed something that helped me figure that out.
The Build
The Ideabox is a web app built entirely with Claude Code. The concept: capture ideas fast (one field, no friction), then run them through a decision filter that helps you evaluate whether to build, park, or kill each one.
It’s not a task manager. It’s not a note-taking app. It’s the step that happens before those tools — the place where ideas go to get honest about whether they deserve your time.
The tech stack and architecture are still being refined, but the core loop is working: capture → evaluate → decide → act or park.
The Mess
This is still in the mess. The hard part isn’t the app — it’s the framework. What questions do you ask someone to help them evaluate an idea? “Is this important?” is useless. “Does this tie to your current revenue goal?” is better. “Can you ship this in two weeks?” is even better.
Getting the evaluation framework right means understanding how multi-passionate people actually think about their ideas. We don’t abandon ideas because they’re bad. We abandon them because something shinier showed up. The Ideabox needs to account for that pattern without being judgmental about it.
The Result
Coming soon. The app is in active development. When it ships, it’ll live at theideabox.app.
The Takeaway
The hardest product to build is the one that solves your own problem. You keep redesigning it because you keep understanding the problem better.
How It’s Built
- Built with: Claude Code
- Domain: theideabox.app (owned, not yet live)
- Status: In development
Coming soon at theideabox.app