Mkdown

http://www.mkdown.com/8485599

by jack7890 • 12 years ago

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mkdown.com

jrajav• 12 years ago

Awesome idea, but it's already been done: http://gist.io/

jack78906• 12 years ago

Wow, how did I not know that?!

Well, time for mkdown to pivot and rebrand as "gist.io but without serifs."

Seriously though, looks like they did a great job.

jaytaylor• 12 years ago

I dig your mkdown design, it's beautiful. Cheers!

ivank2• 12 years ago

It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript

adito• 12 years ago

compared to gist.io, I like mkdown style better.

Can we have custom title too? this gist[1] titled "Learning Haskell" but in mkdown[2] it just say "Gist 8739525" in it's title.

[1] https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525

[2] http://www.mkdown.com/8739525

timdorr• 12 years ago

What about different themes? URLs would be easy still:

mkdown.com/abc123?theme=light or mkdown.com/abc123/light

krbbltr3• 12 years ago

I prefer Mkdown's look, but I think a slightly wider text area would improve on it. It seems a little too narrow compared to gist.io.

Ordered lists seem to be missing by the way.

ansimionescu• 12 years ago

I have already found a differentiator: mkdown supports private gists, which is a boon for me.

icambron• 12 years ago

FWIW, I like yours a lot more.

atmosx• 12 years ago

Doesn't matter. You don't have to be always original all the time. It's a really useful project, bookmarked.

StavrosK• 12 years ago

Because you wanted to build something cool and didn't care if it existed or not:

https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown+gist&oq=markdown+gi...

There's nothing wrong with that, I bet you enjoyed it and now everyone has a very nice alternative.

rhythmvs2• 12 years ago

    > Wow, how did I not know that?

To keep track of the fascinating and rapidly evolving Markdown ecosystem, I maintain an inventory¹ of Markdown dialects, editors, parsers, stylesheets, various tools, etc.

Kudos on Mkdown.com! It’s been added to the list.²

¹ https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources ² https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/m...

camus2• 12 years ago

gist.io seems broken, just tried it ,doesnt work with my gists.

gist.io/3d0b9deab6f5969c354b

kylemaxwell• 12 years ago

http://www.roughdraft.io is another tool - honestly, I like seeing more of these so that we have options that do things slightly differently.

mrchess• 12 years ago

mkdown does private. Gist.io does not support private. +1 for mkdown!

fogleman• 12 years ago

Should at least try to handle code...

http://www.mkdown.com/9382108

Also, mkdown.com fails (without www. subdomain)

jack78906• 12 years ago

Yeah, maybe for v2. The goal of this was to elegantly share .md files (hence the name), so other file types are outside the scope of what I wanted to build.

re:www, it's working on my end: http://cl.ly/image/371J2a1Z2F1s. But I'll investigate.

jrochkind1• 12 years ago

I don't think parent is talking about other file types exactly, but rather that on github itself, you can have code blocks within your .md that get syntax highlighted. Which, for some people, is a pretty key feature of github markdown.

On yours, as in parent's example, the code blocks don't even get put in a `<pre>`, which would be the minimal 'right thing' if you're not going to do syntax highlighting.

(Of course, yes, syntax highlighting code blocks within .md is pretty much going to use the same logic as handling other file types, it's true).

jxf• 12 years ago

Although http://gist.io has this already, I think I like mkdown's CSS a little better (though there doesn't seem to be <code> styling as of yet). In any case, great work!

benatkin3• 12 years ago

I opened it and thought that pg would approve of the narrow column [0]. Then I looked who made it and saw that it's a founder of one of the best examples of YC (not just companies that are doing well but seem philosophically aligned with YC).

Edit: I was wrong, SeatGeek didn't go through YC. But the company is certainly well-liked around here, partly because of their open source: https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/gfaq.html (last question)

jack78906• 12 years ago

SeatGeek actually didn't go through YC. But thanks very much for the kind thoughts, appreciate it.

jack78906• 12 years ago

I should have also mentioned that this is open sourced: https://github.com/jack7890/mkdown (just updated the landing page to reflect that).

SeoxyS• 12 years ago

Love it. One thing I miss from GitHub's native UI, functionally, is the ability to link to headings. I feel like that should be preserved.

Also, a light theme alternative would be nice.

joeblau2• 12 years ago

Seems to work pretty well: http://www.mkdown.com/8783265

peeyek• 12 years ago

when displaying Go lang code it's look weird ( https://db.tt/O4Jbuqzv ). not all code wrap in code tag. mkdown.com/41ec9725ebee05370e58

btw, i love that sintax highlighting. good job!

abritishguy• 12 years ago

Currently only supports markdown files, if that was a markdown file with the code in a fenced code block it would work.

erikano• 12 years ago

I was hoping this was a simplified Makefile format.

import• 12 years ago

I think this is better http://bl.ocks.org/

zhuzhuor• 12 years ago

Shameless plug :)

http://jist.in

ozh• 12 years ago

Neat! I like the tagging attempt and the URL schemes.

jonalmeida• 12 years ago

Does it have to be limited to using a gist? Would it be possible to pass in any url to just raw markdown and have that parsed (i.e. like raw.github.com)

Great work though - I wish I saw this last week while showing markdown to others for the first time.

stevekemp• 12 years ago

Unrelated to gists, but I hacked up http://markdownshare.com/ a while back.

It allows quick & easy sharing of markdown text, and you can host your own instance if you wish.

turnersd• 12 years ago

Can this or any of the other similar renderers be hosted on github as a project page?

sntran• 12 years ago

I did something similar a while back with https://github.com/sntran/gists.io, but was too ambitious to include editor. That got me nowhere. Yours look very nice and simple.

stared• 12 years ago

Any such thing allowing to use LaTeX math formulae and citations?

incanus77• 12 years ago

Another similar idea: http://inkwell.github.io

Mkdown

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