Rethinking SaaS Brainstorming

Planning a SaaS product usually starts with notes, diagrams, or a blank document. But most tools feel too unstructured or too technical - and they don’t help you see how the pieces fit together. That’s why we built Smart Canvas: a visual editor made for thinking in features, flows, and structure - not just ideas.

Classic mind mapping tools are good for quick brainstorming, but they don’t show how your product will actually work.

They lack:

• Clear flows from pages to features to data
• Visual separation between landing and dashboard areas
• Any link to real app structure or code

Smart Canvas was designed to solve these gaps.

Each node in Smart Canvas represents a real building block - like login, billing, blog, or docs. You can connect features to a database block, define what tables they need, and see how they interact.

You can also mark protected pages, show different app sections, and plan real user flows before writing any code.

Smart Canvas is not just for sketching ideas. Once you’ve connected the pieces, it can generate setup instructions, config files, or schema drafts based on your layout.

This makes it easier to go from idea to MVP - without redoing your planning in another tool.

Smart Canvas is part of the aSaaSin template and designed to work out of the box. It’s meant to reduce friction for founders, developers, and designers who want to build real products - faster.

Visual structure helps you stay organized. And staying organized helps you ship.