# Slashspace

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/slashspace/ · added 2026-10-25 · updated 2026-10-25

**In short.** Slashspace (Branching AI chat on a desktop canvas, USA): US$131K total verified revenue, October 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 founder, operating through his company Lokus LLC. Launched September 2024; still running, revenue falling.

Branching AI chat on a desktop canvas · USA · AI-native · solo founder · still running, revenue falling · group: Tools for using AI models

- Outcome: US$131K total verified revenue, October 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: A; headline in US dollars: 131070)
- Launch: September 2024; months from launch to the outcome: 25
- Team: 1 founder, operating through his company Lokus LLC
- Outside funding: None reported
- Main factor: Pricing
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 3, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2C, Productivity software

**The product.** A desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux. Each AI chat is a box on an endless canvas, and any answer, or one sentence of an answer, can start a new branch of the conversation. PDFs, web pages, videos and notes can be connected to a chat as its sources. The user can send the same question to several models side by side, with their own API keys, their own Claude or ChatGPT subscription through the official Claude Code and Codex tools, local models, or prepaid hosted models.

**Why it worked.** A normal chat window is one long thread, and a side question either breaks that thread or is never asked. The founder sold a fix for that one problem to heavy AI users. The subscription version earned little; the one-time licence that followed sold to many buyers, and Stripe data on TrustMRR shows US$131,070 in total. Sales then fell, because each one-time buyer pays only once.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Slashspace, called RabbitHoles AI until May 2026, is a branching chat app. Branching chat means that a reply in a conversation with an AI model can start a separate thread, so a side question gets its own space and the main conversation stays clean. The chats sit as boxes on an infinite canvas, a drawing surface without edges that the user can scroll and zoom, and lines between the boxes decide which sources and earlier answers each chat can read. The models come from other companies: the user brings an API key, a password that lets a program call a model provider on the user's own account, or uses a Claude or ChatGPT subscription through the providers' official command-line tools, or buys hosted usage from a prepaid wallet.

Praneeth Pike, the founder, sells it through his company Lokus LLC. Archived copies of the site show a web app with a US$14 a month Pro plan in September 2024, then a Mac app with a US$39 lifetime licence from November 2024. The price rose to US$89 and then US$249 for a lifetime licence. TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a company's Stripe account, showed US$131,070 of total revenue and US$46,449 in the last 12 months on 25 October 2026. Most of it is one-time payments, and the current monthly recurring revenue (MRR), the subscription revenue that repeats every month, was only US$118.

This page grades every number by its evidence. The revenue totals come from the payment processor through TrustMRR (grade A). The price history comes from the company's own pages and archived copies of them (grade C). The best month was November 2025 with US$14,726; the six months to October 2026 brought about half as much as the six months before. The page also shows failed startups that tried to make research and thinking more visual before language models could answer the questions.

## Pricing

Slashspace prices on 25 October 2026, read from the company's pricing page (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly | 7.42 |  | US$89 a year; every feature; updates while subscribed; 2 computers |
| Lifetime | 249 one-time |  | Every feature; every future version; 2 computers |
| Extra device slot | 49 one-time |  | One more computer |

There is no monthly plan and no free trial; both plans can be refunded within 7 days. Both include every feature and 500 wallet credits once (1 credit is US$0.01). The wallet pays only for Slashspace's hosted models and hosted image generation; a top-up of US$10 of credit costs US$11, a 10% platform fee. Chats on the user's own API keys, Claude or ChatGPT subscription or local models cost nothing extra. An extra computer costs US$49 once. Buyers of the earlier US$89 one-off licence keep the version they have.

## How much revenue does Slashspace make? The numbers, graded

US$131,070 of verified revenue from one-time licences and yearly plans in 25 months, with sales now falling

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total verified revenue, all time, to 25 October 2026 | US$131,070 | A | TrustMRR markdown profile, revenue synced from Stripe through an API key on 25 October 2026. The profile is still listed under the old name Rabbit Holes AI. | [1] |
| Verified revenue, last 12 months to 25 October 2026 | US$46,449 | A | The 12 monthly values in the same profile add up to US$43,216; the 12-month window and the calendar months do not start on the same day. | [1] |
| Revenue before the last 12 months | US$84,621 | calc | Calculated: 131,070 minus 46,449. This is the revenue up to about late October 2025. | [1] |
| Average revenue per month, last 12 months | about US$3,871 | calc | Calculated: 46,449 divided by 12. Above the site's floor of US$2,000 a month only as an average; 6 of the 12 calendar months were below it. | [1] |
| Best month | US$14,726, November 2025 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. It is 32% of the last 12 months' revenue. The next best month was June 2026 with US$7,676. | [1] |
| Verified revenue, last 6 months | US$15,654 | A | TrustMRR, to 25 October 2026. | [1] |
| Revenue in the 6 months before that | US$30,795 | calc | Calculated: 46,449 minus 15,654. The last 6 months brought 49% less. | [1] |
| Lowest recent months | US$191 in August 2026, US$430 in September 2026 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. October 2026 recovered to US$2,685 by the 25th. | [1] |
| Revenue in the last 30 days | US$2,685, on 14 of 30 days | A | TrustMRR daily list, 27 September to 26 October 2026. The largest day was US$747, which equals three US$249 lifetime licences. | [1] |
| Smallest number of payments behind the total | at least 527 | calc | Calculated: 131,070 divided by 249, the highest price on sale, rounded up. The site sells no team or enterprise plan, so the total cannot come from a few large payments. The real number of payments is higher, because many were US$89 or less. | [1, 3] |
| Monthly recurring revenue, October 2026 | US$118, from 11 active subscriptions | A | TrustMRR metric snapshot. Yearly plans and older monthly plans are recurring; lifetime licences are not. | [1] |
| Users stated by the company | more than 1,600 in March 2026; more than 2,500 in October 2026 | C | Archived home page of 16 March 2026 ("1600+ Users") and the home page of 25 October 2026 ("2,500+ people"). The company does not say how many of them paid. | [15, 2] |
| Revenue claimed in a YouTube analysis, October 2025 | US$80,000 in 6 months | D | Title of a video by the channel The Solo Entrepreneur, published 14 October 2025. ProvenStartups reports that the same video also says 1,200 paying users and later 200 users times US$90, which do not agree. The TrustMRR total before the last 12 months, US$84,621, is close to the US$80,000 claim. | [17, 16, 1] |
| Price, September 2024 | Free plan, and Pro at US$14 a month | C | Archived pricing page of the web app. Pro included "Latest Pro Models from ChatGPT and Claude". | [11] |
| Price, November 2024 | US$39 lifetime licence, Mac app | C | Archived home page: "Limited Offer: Lifetime License for $39", with downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. | [12] |
| Price, April 2025 | US$89 lifetime licence | C | Archived home page: "Purchase Life Time Deal • $ 89", with the user's own API keys. | [13] |
| Price, November 2025 to March 2026 | US$89 one-time with one year of updates, or US$249 lifetime | C | Archived home pages of 2 November 2025 and 16 March 2026. | [14, 15] |
| Price, October 2026 | US$89 a year, or US$249 once | C | Pricing page. The lifetime price is 2.8 times the yearly price, as the page says. | [3] |
| Team | 1 founder | C | About page: "Slashspace is built by its founder and operated by Lokus LLC". The same page uses the heading "A small team, run remotely" without naming anyone else. | [4] |
| Company behind the product | Lokus LLC | C | Terms of Use, updated 14 October 2026: an agreement with Lokus LLC, "a company registered in Delaware". The About page says registered in New York. TrustMRR lists the country as US. ProvenStartups and the YouTube video describe the founder as Indian. | [5, 4, 1, 16] |
| Outside funding | none reported | D | No source names an investor. The YouTube description says the founder built it with "no team, no investors". | [17] |
| Date of the new name | 19 May 2026 | C | Company blog post "RabbitHoles AI is now Slashspace AI". | [7] |

How to read this table: a grade A value was read by TrustMRR from the company's Stripe account. A grade C value comes from the company's own pages or archived copies of them. A grade D value is a single claim by a third party. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it. Most revenue is one-time licence sales, so a monthly figure is the revenue of that month, not recurring revenue.

## When did Slashspace launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a US$14 a month web app to a desktop app sold mostly as a one-time licence, with US$131,070 of verified revenue in 25 months. Each entry carries its grade.

- **23 March 2023** (grade C [1]): Founding date that the founder entered on his TrustMRR profile. No product from that time is archived.
- **July 2024** (grade C [10]): The rabbitholes.ai domain shows Learnbrain AI, described as "AI-powered research for the curious mind by @praneeth-pike".
- **September 2024** (grade C [11]): Rabbitholes AI runs as a web app with a free plan and a Pro plan at US$14 a month.
- **November 2024** (grade C [12]): A Mac desktop app replaces it, sold as a lifetime licence for US$39 as a launch offer. Users bring their own API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
- **April 2025** (grade C [13]): The lifetime licence costs US$89.
- **14 October 2025** (grade D [17]): A Hindi-language YouTube channel publishes a video that claims US$80,000 in 6 months.
- **November 2025** (grade A [1, 14]): Best month in the TrustMRR data: US$14,726. The site now sells US$89 with one year of updates, or US$249 for life.
- **March 2026** (grade C [15]): The home page says 1600+ users.
- **19 May 2026** (grade C [7]): RabbitHoles AI becomes Slashspace. The founder writes that branching chat alone "no longer capture[s] the full opportunity" and that the old name sounded optional, "a side quest".
- **June 2026** (grade A [1]): Second-best month: US$7,676.
- **August to September 2026** (grade A [1]): Revenue falls to US$191 and US$430.
- **October 2026** (grade A [1, 3, 8]): US$89 a year or US$249 once, hosted models from a prepaid wallet, apps for Mac, Windows and Linux. TrustMRR shows US$131,070 in total and US$118 of monthly recurring revenue.

## Why did Slashspace work?

### The price shape

The September 2024 web app cost US$14 a month and the models were included. ProvenStartups, retelling a YouTube analysis, reports that the product was "almost a dead product" on subscriptions. From November 2024 the founder sold a desktop app once, for US$39, then US$89, then US$249, and the Stripe data shows at least 527 payments behind the total.

### No model bill at first

From November 2024 the buyer brought their own API keys, so each chat was paid to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google directly. A one-time price is safe only when the seller does not pay for usage. The hosted models added later are prepaid from a wallet, at cost plus a 10% fee on each top-up.

### One problem, solved visibly

The product does one thing that a chat window cannot: keep side questions as separate branches that can all be seen at once. One testimonial on the home page, from an educator, says he switched after spending too much time copying text between ChatGPT, Claude and browser tabs.

### Why the revenue falls

A lifetime licence is paid once. Revenue each month depends on new buyers, so it rises with a launch or a mention and drops between them: US$14,726 in November 2025, US$191 in August 2026. The yearly plan of October 2026 is a step back toward recurring revenue.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's privacy policy, terms and documentation, read on 25 October 2026. They are grade C.

- A desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Canvases, chats and files are saved in a folder on the user's computer; API keys are stored in the operating system's secure storage and sent only to their provider.
- Hosted models go through Vercel AI Gateway to Anthropic, OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock. Image generation goes through OpenRouter. The Orchestrator mode, which plans work and hands parts of it to sub-agents, runs as background jobs on Trigger.dev with an Anthropic model.
- Subscriptions are used by starting the official Claude Code and Codex command-line tools that the user installed and signed in to. The documentation says usage "counts against your Claude or ChatGPT plan".
- Clerk for sign-in, Convex as the main database, Supabase for older accounts, Render and Cloudflare for the servers, Groq for transcription, Turbopuffer for search, Composio and MCP servers for connections to Gmail, Notion and other services.
- Stripe and Autumn take the payments; Resend and Loops send emails; PostHog and Sentry measure use and errors.
- Earlier buyers move over by email address: "Rabbitholes lifetime deals" and deals bought through a partner are matched to the new account.

Sources: [6, 5, 8, 9]

## Who tried this before Slashspace, and why did they fail?

Four companies in the Loot Drop database tried to make research, notes or brainstorming more visual before language models could answer the questions themselves. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from Loot Drop (https://www.loot-drop.io/), a free database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Loot Drop describes its entries as AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### InstaGrok (2010 to 2013; funding US$500K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A search tool for students that showed results as a map of linked concepts instead of a list.
- Why it died: Schools did not change how they taught research, and free tools such as Quizlet and Khan Academy took the students.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1700-instagrok

### Thinkature (2006 to 2009; funding US$20K; cause: No Market Need)

- Promise: A shared online whiteboard for brainstorming and planning.
- Why it died: Google Docs covered most of the need, and free users did not become paying customers.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1670-thinkature

### Omnity (2015 to 2021; funding US$4.5M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Semantic search that connected documents from different fields for researchers.
- Why it died: Its own search algorithms were expensive to run, and large technology companies built stronger AI search.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/385-omnity

### Kippt (2012 to 2017; funding US$400K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A clean tool to save and organize web pages against information overload.
- Why it died: It was caught between Pocket and Evernote, and its social features did not bring new users.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/278-kippt

## What changed

Before 2023, a visual research tool could only arrange what the user already knew or found. InstaGrok drew search results as a map, Thinkature gave teams a shared whiteboard, and Kippt saved pages; the thinking itself still had to be done by the person, and each company had to pay for its own search or servers.

Language models made each box on the canvas able to answer. Slashspace does not run a model; it connects the user's own accounts at OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, so the founder had no model bill to cover when he sold a licence once. Omnity spent US$4.5 million on its own search algorithms, while TrustMRR shows that one founder took US$131,070 by building only the canvas around rented models.

## Can one person copy Slashspace now?

**Verdict: The pricing lesson, yes. The steady revenue, not yet.**

Branching chat on a canvas is a crowded category: the About page itself names Heptabase, Anara, Arky and Poppy AI as competitors, and the large chat apps can add branching at any time. The one-time price brought many buyers but no recurring base: the Stripe data shows US$118 of monthly recurring revenue after US$131,070 in total.

1. Sell a client for other companies' models with the buyer's own API keys, so a one-time price carries no usage cost.
2. Test the price shape, not only the price: the same product moved from a monthly plan to a lifetime licence and sold far more.
3. Raise the price in steps while buyers keep coming, here from US$39 to US$89 to US$249.
4. Add a yearly plan and prepaid usage before the lifetime sales slow down, not after.

**What is still open.** A branching workspace built for one profession, with its sources and outputs: lawyers comparing case law, doctors reading studies, analysts comparing filings. Slashspace sells to a general audience of researchers, students and founders.

## What could go wrong for Slashspace?

- **Falling revenue.** The last 6 months brought US$15,654, against US$30,795 in the 6 months before. August and September 2026 brought US$191 and US$430. Monthly recurring revenue was US$118 on 25 October 2026.
- **Lifetime buyers pay once.** Each lifetime licence is a cost that never ends: updates, support and the servers behind the documents, search and sign-in. Revenue must come from new buyers every month, or from the new yearly plan and wallet top-ups.
- **Rules of the model providers.** The subscription feature drives the official Claude Code and Codex tools under the user's own account, and the terms tell users that they must follow the providers' terms. The terms also say that a third party "may change or stop a model or service at any time", which would remove that feature.
- **Competition from the chat apps.** ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini control both the models and the most-used chat windows. If they add branching and a canvas, the main reason to buy a separate app becomes smaller.
- **Numbers that do not agree.** The YouTube analysis claims 1,200 paying users and also computes 200 users times US$90, as ProvenStartups notes. The company's own user counts (1,600+ in March 2026, 2,500+ in October 2026) do not say how many paid. Founding is 2023 on TrustMRR and 2024 on the About page; the company is registered in Delaware in the terms and in New York on the About page.

## Sources

1. TrustMRR profile of Rabbit Holes AI (now Slashspace), revenue synced from Stripe on 25 October 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/rabbit-holes-ai.md (grade A). Read the markdown profile on 25 October 2026. Revenue, monthly timeline, daily list and recurring revenue are verified through the Stripe API; the description, founding date and pricing text are founder-written (grade C).
2. Slashspace home page, read 25 October 2026 — https://www.slashspace.ai/ (grade C). Read in full, with the questions and answers in the page. Source for the product, the models, the user count and the previous name.
3. Slashspace pricing page, read 25 October 2026 — https://www.slashspace.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the plans, the wallet and the 10% fee.
4. About Slashspace, read 25 October 2026 — https://www.slashspace.ai/about (grade C). Read in full. Source for the founder, the company, the reason for the new name and the competitors.
5. Slashspace Terms of Use, last updated 14 October 2026 — https://www.slashspace.ai/legal/terms (grade C). Read the sections on the parties and on AI models and third-party services. Confirms Lokus LLC as the company behind the product.
6. Slashspace Privacy Policy, last updated 21 October 2026 — https://www.slashspace.ai/legal/privacy-policy (grade C). Read in full. Source for the model providers, the AI gateway and the service providers.
7. Slashspace blog, 19 May 2026: RabbitHoles AI is now Slashspace AI — https://www.slashspace.ai/blog/rabbitholes-is-now-slashspace (grade C). Read in full. Founder's post on the new name.
8. Slashspace documentation: Plans and billing — https://www.slashspace.ai/docs/plans-and-billing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the earlier one-off licence, older plans, wallet rules and the move of RabbitHoles lifetime deals.
9. Slashspace documentation: Subscription providers — https://www.slashspace.ai/docs/settings/subscription-providers (grade C). Read the sections on Claude Code and Codex. Source for how subscriptions are used.
10. Wayback Machine copy of rabbitholes.ai, 25 July 2024 (Learnbrain AI) — https://web.archive.org/web/20240725193419/https://rabbitholes.ai/ (grade C). Read the page title and description.
11. Wayback Machine copy of the RabbitHoles AI pricing page, 20 September 2024 — https://web.archive.org/web/20240920181047/https://www.rabbitholes.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the US$14 a month plan.
12. Wayback Machine copy of the RabbitHoles AI home page, 3 November 2024 — https://web.archive.org/web/20241103071813/https://rabbitholes.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the Mac app and the US$39 lifetime licence.
13. Wayback Machine copy of the RabbitHoles AI home page, 1 April 2025 — https://web.archive.org/web/20250401030646/https://rabbitholes.ai/ (grade C). Read the pricing part. Source for the US$89 lifetime licence.
14. Wayback Machine copy of the RabbitHoles AI home page, 2 November 2025 — https://web.archive.org/web/20251102080506/https://rabbitholes.ai/ (grade C). Read the pricing part. Source for the US$89 and US$249 prices.
15. Wayback Machine copy of the RabbitHoles AI home page, 16 March 2026 — https://web.archive.org/web/20260316115414/https://rabbitholes.ai/ (grade C). Read the pricing part and the user count.
16. ProvenStartups, captured 25 July 2026: Rabbit Holes AI, $80K in about 6 months — https://provenstartups.com/projects/rabbit-holes-ai-branching-chat-lifetime-deal (grade D). Read the free sections. A retelling of one YouTube video, marked Creator-relayed, which itself notes that the video's numbers do not agree.
17. The Solo Entrepreneur on YouTube, 14 October 2025: This Indian Founder Made $80,000 in 6 Months with One SaaS Product! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXhtE7zQjk (grade D). Read the title, date and description only; the video was not watched. A third-party analysis, not a founder interview.
18. Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startups — https://www.loot-drop.io/ (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.