A simple Markdown note app with templates and PDF support
Details
- External ID
- 46122429
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A simple Markdown note app with templates and PDF support
- Website domain
- panto.app
- Launched
- Dec. 2, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
A lightweight note-taking app built with Go + HTMX, featuring nested pages, templates, shared spaces, and OCR to make scanned PDFs searchable. The web app uses responsive design to make it scale to desktop or mobile.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- markdown note app with templates and pdf export
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward Go and HTMX CRUD note-taking app utilizing Tiptap in the frontend and standard OCR libraries for PDF text extraction.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Evernote, Confluence, Notion, Tesseract
Concerns raised: Poor handwriting recognition capability, Limited multi-language support
Feature requests: Improve handwriting OCR quality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 241 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #239 of 242 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Paragraph Notes · ph · 2026-09-26 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- A canvas-based note taking and organizer app · hn · 2026-07-19 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HydroMark · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- PDF to Markdown that preserves layout, images, and tables · hn · 2026-01-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MdNote · ph · 2026-09-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Memorypad · hn · 2026-06-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PDF to MD · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-09-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.