Splat
Native macOS Markdown editor for vibecoders, built in Rust
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Vibecoding means living in Markdown: CLAUDE.md, specs, plans, READMEs. Splat puts the source and a live preview side by side, both editable, and turns every preview edit into the smallest change to the Markdown, so diffs stay clean. Mermaid, LaTeX and Obsidian syntax render offline; export to PDF, HTML and Word. Native, written in Rust, free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: markdown editors and viewers · 158 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +86% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 158 launches in markdown editors and viewers →
Could you build this?
Partial A native macOS editor is buildable with AI help, but the key feature of mapping preview edits back to minimal Markdown diffs is a nontrivial sync and parsing problem.
What it would actually take: Likely a Rust core with a native macOS UI (e.g., via AppKit bindings) and a CommonMark-compliant parser that preserves source positions. The hard part is a bidirectional source-to-preview mapping that emits minimal text edits, plus offline Mermaid, LaTeX, and Obsidian rendering. This requires strong parser and editor-engineering skill and careful testing of edge cases.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 241 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 242 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- splat · github · 2026-10-29 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Ferrite · hn · 2026-01-11 · 241 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built a native macOS Markdown viewer 100% with AI coding agents · hn · 2026-05-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Beauty - Beautiful markdown notes · ph · 2026-10-03 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Vibe Code your 3D Models · hn · 2026-02-27 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Strata, real-time Markdown editor you can mount as a filesystem · hn · 2026-07-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- vibewright · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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