Kraa
Writing App for Everything
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Hello HN! We're a team of three building a new kind of web-based markdown editor.There are many editors out there, so one is spoiled for choice, but Kraa's approach is a little different. It's trying to be both a minimal and distraction-free experience while being feature-rich and allowing for tons of use cases.What Kraa's good for:- Distraction-free writing & reading (minimal UI, performant, styling logic completely separated from the editing experience)- Quick sharing of any written text – compared to many other writing tools, your content can be easily shared just by posting a link and giving 'read' or 'edit' access (we also have password-protection)- Real-time chat / communities – Kraa has some unique features around real-time editing and our Chat widget allows for a frictionless chat experience. No send button.- Kraa works well on mobile (though dedicated apps are planned)---Demo examples (all live, no login needed):Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibraryLong-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekickMagazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspirationKraa is built on top of ProseMirror (and TipTap) and Svelte.You don’t need an account to try Kraa. We’d really appreciate your thoughts and feedback!
HN · launched Dec 4, 2025 · 127 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: markdown editors and viewers · 158 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Kraa is a minimalist web-based Markdown editor built with standard web frameworks, local storage, and standard WebSocket/CRDT collaborative sync libraries.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Evernote, Notion, ProseMirror, Securinote
Concerns raised: No visible pricing page or business model transparency, Slow loading performance, Requires account creation to discover pricing, UI bugs (timestamp overlap on Safari, duplicate sample links), Uncertain if bait-and-switch pricing model
Feature requests: Voice recording with speech-to-text conversion, Sketching/drawing capability on mobile, Conflict resolution and syncing at scale with multiple cursors and permissions, Export to plaintext format
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 29 days after the earliest competitor.
- Real-Real-Time Chat · hn · 2026-04-23 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing · hn · 2026-07-25 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Reproof · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GitWriter · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web · hn · 2026-09-27 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- aida — Native Markdown Editor for macOS · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Allein · hn · 2025-11-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- A Markdown editor without the bloat · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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