--- title: Biscuit description: All-in-one business platform by Ives van Hoorne (CodeSandbox) that Jan Wilmake explored in May 2026; relationship dead after 13 days without follow-up category: Organizations --- # Biscuit **Biscuit** (`biscuit.so`) is an all-in-one platform for building businesses, created by [[Ives_van_Hoorne]] (founder of CodeSandbox). It provides project management, assets, models, brand identity, email, workflows, and preview capabilities in a single integrated environment. [[Jan_Wilmake]] began exploring Biscuit in May 2026 as both a potential product tool and a relationship/employment opportunity. ## Platform Features Based on Jan's exploration of the platform on May 12, 2026, Biscuit includes: - **Project creation and publishing** — guided onboarding with starter templates - **Asset management** — upload and organise brand assets - **Data models** — define structured data (Jan created "Blob" and "Post" models) - **Brand identity** — centralised brand settings - **Email inbox** — integrated business email - **Workflows** — automation and process management - **Preview** — live preview of the project - **Shared workspaces** — invite co-founders or friends to co-build apps - **Jobs page** — Biscuit is actively hiring (`biscuit.so/jobs`) - **Watch page** — showcase of projects built on Biscuit Biscuit positions itself as a tool for solo builders and founders, combining capabilities that would otherwise require multiple separate SaaS subscriptions. ## Jan Wilmake's Involvement ### March 2026: Initial Interest On March 27, 2026, during his public job search, Jan expressed interest in a position at Biscuit in Amsterdam, alongside other opportunities. ### May 4, 2026: Meeting Booked Jan booked a 30-minute meeting with Ives van Hoorne for May 8, later rescheduled to May 12. The meeting was arranged through Ives's company email (`ives@flits.inc`). ### May 12, 2026: Deep Exploration and Ives Meeting On May 12, Jan spent approximately 30+ minutes building a project called **"Publican"** inside Biscuit — exploring project chats, assets, preview, email inbox, workflows, models, and brand pages. He researched Ives van Hoorne's X profile (`@CompuIves`) for ~6 minutes ahead of the meeting. The 30-minute Google Meet call with Ives ran from approximately 11:01 to 11:29. During the meeting, Jan showed the [[OpenPolsia]] dashboard and GitHub repository — demonstrating his autonomous business-agent work as a conversation piece. ### May 13, 2026: Maria Follow-Up and Event Discovery Jan received an email from **Maria Martin** (at Biscuit) about the Publican project — a proactive follow-up from Biscuit's side, not initiated by Jan. He then researched Biscuit's X presence, including viewing a showcase by Justine Moore (who built a travel app on Biscuit in 30 minutes). He also discovered the **"Bakin' Biscuit"** event — a builder day at Biscuit's Amsterdam canal-side office on May 15, 2026, featuring demos at 5:00 PM. The tweet from Maria's personal account read: *"People of Amsterdam, come build your app with us this Friday, 15th May at our Bakin' Biscuit event."* ### May 15, 2026: Bakin' Biscuit Event The **"Bakin' Biscuit"** builder event took place on May 15, 2026 at Biscuit's Amsterdam canal-side office, with demos scheduled at 5:00 PM. Jan's browser history for May 15 shows no Biscuit-related activity — browsing started at 17:06 with Netflix film selection. This suggests Jan either attended the event in person (without device usage) or did not attend. ### May 16–26: No Follow-Up (11 Days) As of May 28, 2026 — thirteen days after the Bakin' Biscuit event — no follow-up activity with Biscuit has been observed in Jan's browser history, email, or X activity. No email to Ives or Maria, no X engagement with Biscuit content, and no visits to biscuit.so. At 13 days post-event, the follow-up window has definitively closed and the Biscuit relationship is dead. Any re-engagement would require a cold restart rather than a warm follow-up. ### Relationship Ambiguity As of late May 2026, the Biscuit relationship has stalled completely. While the proactive email from Maria, the Bakin' Biscuit event invitation, and Jan's engagement with Biscuit content on X all suggested Biscuit was actively engaging Jan, the 13-day absence of any follow-up from Jan's side has allowed the momentum to dissipate entirely. This is part of a broader pattern of post-sprint avoidance that has affected all active leads in Jan's [[Career_Plan_2026|2026 job search pipeline]]. On May 28, Jan resumed LinkedIn job browsing — suggesting a pivot toward fresh leads rather than attempting to salvage cold relationships. ## The Publican Project **Publican** is a project Jan built inside Biscuit on May 12, 2026. Based on the browser history, it involved setting up assets, data models ("Blob", "Post"), brand identity, email, workflows, and preview pages — suggesting a publishing or content management tool. ## Connection to CodeSandbox Biscuit is created by [[Ives_van_Hoorne]], who previously founded CodeSandbox — one of the most widely-used online code editors. The transition from CodeSandbox (developer tools) to Biscuit (business building platform) represents a pivot toward a broader audience of solo builders and founders. ## See Also - [[Ives_van_Hoorne]] - [[Career_Plan_2026]] - [[OpenPolsia]] - [[Jan_Wilmake]]