Markdown Viewer and Editor
Details
- External ID
- 49514729
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Markdown Viewer and Editor
- Website domain
- kingsbridge-consultancy.com
- Launched
- Aug. 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 34
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8165322580645161
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
I built an online viewer and editor for .md files where the file stays on your machine. Free to use and code is available under MIT License here: https://github.com/hattray/markdown-editorYou can also install it as a Chrome/Edge app so that it works for files on your desktop by double-clicking.Supports standard .md files with formatting, syntax-highlighting for code, table of contents, Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX via KaTex. Also supports exporting to .html, .pdf and .png.Please give it a try and share your feedback for improvements.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- markdown viewer and editor
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a client-side Markdown reader and editor leveraging the File System Access API and standard open-source Markdown parsing libraries in the browser.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OverType.dev, Milkdown.dev, VSCode/Cursor markdown preview, CodeMirror, Monaco editor
Concerns raised: No syntax highlighting in the editor, Monaco editor is too large (5MB+), Installation/file handler setup unclear for Chrome
Feature requests: Syntax highlighting in editor, Visual math equation editor for LaTeX, File Handler API integration for opening .md files
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 329 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 330 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
- mdprint · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- MDFK · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- showmd · ph · 2026-04-13 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- PDF to MD · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-09-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OpenMarkdown · ph · 2026-07-18 · 188 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- MdNote · ph · 2026-09-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- MDDeck · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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