flo-state
A minimalist, native macOS markdown editor. Swift + TextKit 2. GPL-3.0.
Details
- External ID
- 1389724261
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- flo-state
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 84
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9049449141685882
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- native markdown editor for macos users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A minimalist native macOS markdown editor utilizing Apple's modern TextKit 2 APIs can be readily vibe-coded using Swift and SwiftUI/AppKit.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 408 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 409 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
- Write.md · hn · 2026-08-11 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- I open-sourced a macOS native Markdown rendering engine · hn · 2026-07-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Sarala · hn · 2026-09-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Editxr · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Notemac++ · hn · 2026-02-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- leaf · hn · 2026-04-24 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LiteMD · github · 2026-09-17 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Safari MCP · hn · 2026-04-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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