Show HN: Markdawn — a different kind of writing platform

by lcnmrn • 13 years ago

24 15 13 years ago

I designed and developed a writing platform after seven years helping people having a good looking blog with a very popular WordPress theme, “The Journalist”.

krrishd• 13 years ago

Seems pretty nice. To me it looks like an open-to-all, more technical and concise version of Medium or Svbtle, one I would use more. Just curious, was this the intention?

lcnmrn4• 13 years ago

Yes. It's a designer and developer take at Medium, Svbtle which doesn't ignore Markdown syntax as a future standard.

abdophoto• 13 years ago

This is really cool and interesting. Do you think by allowing anyone to register you might run into the problem of "noise" as we've seen on pretty much all sites that let anyone post. That's an area where Svbtle clearly seems to be focused on.

MAGZine2• 13 years ago

This is interesting... I'm intrigued to write something.

One thing, though--would it be possible to have it sign you in after completing activation? :)

lcnmrn4• 13 years ago

I'm not sure if that's the deal breaker at this stage, but I added it as a bug.

MAGZine2• 13 years ago

Not at all, an entry in a bugtracker is more than enough visibility - it's just a small usability thing that's nice to have :)

derrida• 13 years ago

I entered a bad password just to check it out, but you should really use https

iambateman• 13 years ago

Tried out this service, and it's pretty nice. In the founder's post[1], he talks about the pitfalls of Twitter/FB. Would love to see tighter integration between these services. I'd use a service like this as a simple "mind dump" space. Sort of like JSFiddle for essays.

Less work than Tumblr, but I don't see the differentiation from Medium.

[1] http://markdawn.com/post/14/

lcnmrn4• 13 years ago

Thank you for the nice words. I'm trying to build a minimal social layer underneath, that's neither intrusive or abusive so you can check later on your favorite writers.

mVChr• 13 years ago

Nice looking idea, but it really needs an About page. I tend not to sign up for things without knowing what I'm supposed to use them for or what they're going to use me for.

systems• 13 years ago

http://markdawn.com/post/1/

the link was at the bottom of the page but i agree with you, it should be made more visible

vbit• 13 years ago

The service seems pretty nice. Would be great to see links to 'about markdown' or related posts from the homepage though.

fit2rule• 13 years ago

What does this site do? I can't tell by first looking at it - do I really have to register to get a clue?

tannerbrockwell• 13 years ago

There is a bug in displaying the first paragraph. I was unable to set it in a code block, as indented paragraphs or anything but by putting a throw away line in the first paragraph and then format the subsequent ones...

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