Rune
A focused Markdown writer for desktop (Tauri/Rust)
Details
- External ID
- 48432448
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rune
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hello, I'm Hyunbin.Recently I made 'Rune' which is a small desktop .md writer/editor.I am aware that there are a lot of .md editor out there. but i wanted to build .md editor by myself.Major features :- Atomic Saves (write-temp -> fsync -> rename) so a crash can't corrupt a file, debounced autosave.- Pasted/dropped images are content-addressed (sha256) into an assets.- Workspace folder + file tree, Chrome-style tabs- Interactive task checkboxes, readable/wide width toggle; self-contained HTML and PDF export- currently supports English/Korean/Chinese/JapaneseAny sort of feedback / contribution is always welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- focused markdown writer for desktop
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a desktop Markdown editor created with Tauri and Rust featuring standard atomic file operations and a simple text interface.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: UI sluggish with medium-sized markdown files (200 lines), Scrolling performance issues, Tab switching lag
Feature requests: Add screenshots to README
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #89 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 218 days after the earliest competitor.
- Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing · hn · 2026-07-25 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Markdown Viewer and Editor · hn · 2026-08-31 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Han · hn · 2026-03-14 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compiler · hn · 2026-07-29 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Markling · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Lobster.js · hn · 2026-03-08 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- HUI · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Markpad · hn · 2026-01-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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