Askdown
A plain-text format for forms
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Details
- External ID
- 50066372
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Askdown
- Website domain
- askdown.dev
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- markdown editors and viewers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- plain-text markdown-like format for defining interactive forms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Askdown is a text-based DSL, parser, and renderer for forms, which is a classic compiler/lexer/parser problem that modern AI coding assistants generate with high proficiency.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Support for custom types or validator functions, Validation constraints (number ranges, min dates)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1194 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #875 of 1195 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Open-source Typeform · hn · 2026-03-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- soml · github · 2026-10-09 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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