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Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

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I've spent the last 10 months building Beauty: a local, powerful greco-roman Markdown editor where the page looks finished while you type. It runs on the Mac, iPhone and in the browser, and the browser version opens without an account: https://app.markdown.beautyI was frustrated with writing apps, and like most I used Apple Notes. After 2+ years immersed in Cursor, Codex and CC, I wished some interactions existed in a text editor.The Markdown renders in place as you write it, including tables (which you can drag and resize without lining up pipes), KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams. A lot of thought went into typography and the writing experience.Your notes on the Mac are plain .md files in a folder with images next to them, so they open in anything else too. Each note keeps 200 versions. If you share a note with a link it syncs peer to peer over WebRTC while someone has it open, and the server that connects you only ever sees a random room id.Most of the ~1,000 commits went into the editor itself. It's a contenteditable, and I don't let the browser restructure the document at all, which was a lot more work than I expected. Building this to be performant and cross-platform required some novel approaches, which I'll later open source. The editor is free with no account or ads, and there's an optional subscription for sync through your own iCloud.https://www.markdown.beauty

HN · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 69 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views

Niche: markdown editors and viewers · 158 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +86% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a client-side Markdown editor with rich preview and cross-platform support via standard web/cross-platform frameworks (like Electron, Tauri, or Capacitor).

Discussion

5 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Apple Notes, Notion, Obsidian, Craft, AnyType

Concerns raised: unclear revenue model

Feature requests: more color options, callout blocks with customizable colors, author story on site

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 329 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #78 of 330 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.

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