mdpeek
Quick Look for Markdown — double-click any .md then read
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Booting a full editor just to read a README is overkill. mdpeek is a 3 MB Markdown reader that opens anymd file instantly as a clean webpage — spot a typo? F2 flips the page into an editor. F3 for split-screen. - Live refresh: save in any editor, it re-renders in place - Tabs + outline that tracks your reading position - 9 themes + dark mode, one right-click to switch - Mermaid & KaTeX render natively - Export to PDF and single-file HTML 100% local: no account, no ads, no cloud. Ever.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 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
- Productivity
- User Experience
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 158 launches in markdown editors and viewers →
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight Markdown renderer with live reload, tabs, an outline, and an editor toggle is a standard desktop or web app built on existing parsing libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 148 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 149 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- MDFK · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- mdprint · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MDFormats · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- showmd · ph · 2026-04-13 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MDNote · github · 2026-11-01 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mdpdf a 2k line C CLI to convert Markdown to tiny PDFs · hn · 2026-04-09 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Noteline · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MD PDF Converter · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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