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_andrei_: ha, nice - had the same need, i leveraged fumadocs for the ui part https://github.com/3rd/mdreader

FailMore: I like the folder opening and the idea to integrate Claude is very interesting. I’m also curious to know how you did the document rendering. It looks very good.This problem has risen to the top of many people’s minds at this moment (including mine!). My Show HN for a similar cli + web based solution (https://sdocs.dev) is on the /show page now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633).

desireco42: Definitely appreciate this. I already have Typora which is commercial but fantastic product so I don't really need another viewer but others for sure will.Glad you used Tauri to make this. I will check it out.

Arubis: Can +1 Typora, it's quite excellent.

yakkomajuri: I did something very similar recently, just made it open source but haven't posted anywhere.https://github.com/yakkomajuri/seamsRun `seams .` in any dir and get a rich markdown editor with image uploads, block editing, tables, etc etcCongrats on launching!

mech422: I tend to use 'bat' or 'glow' though I've tried 'mdlook' and 'mdcat' as well.

mschulkind: Seems like I'm just part of the club here, but I've also been working on something similar recently.https://vantageapp.dev/I find connecting understanding between humans and agents is one of the most important parts of the agentic development cycle, and markdown is a great way to handle that.Not only can you point it at an entire directory, you can point it at multiple projects, quick load a project with a keyboard shortcut, and also easily see recent file that changed to help you find the 75th file your agent just wrote for you.Recently, I've started to add a review interface where you can track changes, and add comments for your agent, and then instead of trying to do some complicated integration with an agent, it just has a copy button, and it copies all the comments, which context, and instructions for the agent how to reply.I also find that I generate TONS of markdown junk during development, and I needed a way to handle it and keep it out of the main repository so I built this tool:https://github.com/mschulkind-oss/swarf/

msluyter: Somewhat related. I've also been generating lots of markdown files, which I've occasionally wanted to print out (so I can rest my eyes, or just read them somewhere other than my desk.) First class (free) printing support for rendered markdown seems like a lacuna in the overall ecosystem. I'm currently using the "print" plugin for VS Code, which opens rendered markdown in a browser window, which I print from there. Curious if anyone knows of better options?

FergusArgyll: Like many others here, I made this for myself too, but! mine is also named marky!

robinduckett: I built a similar thing today for my hyprland desktop!https://github.com/robinduckett/hyprmark

hbbio: Congrats on shipping!Been also building this slowly, mostly assisting my kids.What they built is Apple-only, since it's a native iOS/macOS app in Swift. It's been a very interesting experience for me, as even capable frontier LLMs still can't write Apple SwiftUI/AppKit properly. They constantly get the bridges wrong, and any feature prompt puts your previous architectural efforts at risk :)

cetinsert: https://zerodevx.github.io/zero-md/ is the real deal. No react bs.

alsetmusic: First thing that blocks me from adopting it is lack of ability to adjust text size. I increase default text size on web pages and in my terminal. I'm old enough to need that. I can see the text at the default size but it strains my vision and is uncomfortable. Also, needs to be able to resize the columns / sidebars. I like the initial design. Hope you keep adding to it.

zmmmmm: seems like vscode + preview is nearly the same?I guess my key issue is, with files getting continuously modified by coding agents, I want really good integration with git and live update features. If the file just got edited, make it easy to see the new parts etc.

GRVYDEV: These are great suggestions I’ll get these added tomorrow!

physicles: Vantage looks great! I’ll try it out this weekend.To do the job that swarf does, I found that the bwrap sandbox I’d been using is the perfect place to mount a folder to catch markdown junk and keep it out of the project’s actual git repo. Works great.

GRVYDEV: I’m a neovim user so I’ve never used the vscode markdown viewer. One of the things I want to add is the git and live update features though. I think those would be a game changer

GRVYDEV: I live in my terminal but for some reason any TUI markdown viewers just don’t do it for me

GRVYDEV: Haha awesome. Was the lowest hanging fruit for a name

GRVYDEV: You should ask them to make it work on windows or Linux once they’re done on Mac :) would be a good lesson for them

dhruv3006: Interesting this goes well with https://voiden.md/ - maybe we can integrate this - great work man!

GRVYDEV: Voiden looks awesome I’ll have to check it out

dhruv3006: yep we too are markdown based but are a api tool !

gknapp: What does this do that Obsidian doesn't already do? I've found that's my typical go to for pairing with Agentic work, and supports Markdown well, alongside tons of other functionality.

uptodatenews: I said just keep it in the repo like scaffolding.Is software ever done?Why remove the dev notes for the future agents?https://github.com/RCSnyder/lights-out-swe

hresvelgr: > A fast, native markdown viewer for macOS built with Tauri v2, React, and markdown-it.Since when is JavaScript native? Tauri may be using the system's web view but it's still a web view. False advertising.

mncharity: I wonder where things might go from here. Human-in-the-loop frontier agentic can seem more skimming a markdown stream, than reading stable files. And the cattle-swarm cat-herding of local and cloud-burst-parallel agentic... how do you skim a 5 stream firehose, or the result of a 5-minute 100 agent task burst? How do you build a staff of real-time personal assists? The pairing of artisanal pet frontier-models with traditional-style git use, provides familiar low cardinalities, and maybe that's the future too. But if agentic becomes menageries, and repos become probability clouds, and humans remain in the loop... we'll need novel tooling. My three first thoughts watching the demo vid were: pretty; maybe a plug-in could provide semantic key-phrase highlighting to speed skimming; and I wonder what a real-time "fisheye lens"-style executive-summary sidebar gloss might look like. Interesting times.

mech422: Yeah - I've tried a bunch of them, and nothing's really perfect but those seem to be good enough for lightweight use.

robsan: Mine too!

GRVYDEV: This isn’t the 90s anymore. Using the systems web view is, in fact, native by definition.

GRVYDEV: I was using obsidian before this. There were two main frustrations for me with obsidian. First, opening a markdown file that did not live in a vault wasn’t possible. Second there was not a CLI that made it easy to quickly open files