HermesMarkdown
Markdown editor that saves straight to your folder. No cloud
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Open a folder in Chrome or Edge and edit your Markdown files right where they are on disk. Works with existing Obsidian vaults, supports [[wikilinks]], Vim mode and live embeds, and works offline. No accounts, no cloud. Free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: markdown editors and viewers · 158 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Notes
- GitHub
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More like this: all 158 launches in markdown editors and viewers →
Could you build this?
Yes A browser-based Markdown editor using the File System Access API with wikilinks, Vim keybindings and embeds is a feasible client-side app built on existing editor libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 343 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 344 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
- Opal Editor, free Obsidian alternative for markdown and site publishing · hn · 2026-01-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Sonder Markdown Editor · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Flowershow · ph · 2026-03-25 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- A Markdown editor without the bloat · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built a native macOS Markdown viewer 100% with AI coding agents · hn · 2026-05-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- OpenMarkdown · ph · 2026-07-18 · 188 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Markdown Viewer and Editor · hn · 2026-08-31 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Markdown Preview · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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