A founder note

A planner built from the in-between.

I grew up in a small town in Canada, but the world arrived early, through the friends I made. Classmates whose families spanned continents, roommates who spoke four languages at dinner, mentors who kept apartments in cities I'd only seen on maps. Their lives pulled me outward. Over the years I ended up living across Taiwan, China, Singapore, and France, and travelling through 50+ countries along the way, each stay long enough to learn the rhythms of a neighbourhood, the bus I actually trusted at night, the café where the work got done.

By graduate school, the trips had a different shape. My calendar filled with fixed anchors, a founder summit in one country, a conference in another, a stretch of remote work I could do from anywhere, and I kept asking myself the same question: given everywhere I already needed to be, where should I actually base myself in between? Close to the right entrepreneurial scene. On a student budget. Somewhere I'd actually want to wake up in for three weeks straight.

Every tool I opened asked the wrong first question. Where are you flying from? Mine was the opposite, I knew where I had to land, I just needed help choosing the spaces in between. So I started sketching one that asked my question instead. Maunder is the planner I wish I'd had on every flight between Taipei and Paris, Singapore and home, built by someone who has actually lived the in-between, and made for the founders, operators, and curious builders trying to do the same.