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Products that do what Flashtype – Markdown editor for Claude and Codex with in-line diffs does
I wanted to better markdown editor for collaborating with Claude/Codex and built Flashtype (https://github.com/opral/flashtype): - opens local markdown files - Claude/Codex natively integrated (with my existing subscription!) - in-line diffing to quickly accept/reject changes - WYSIWYG (!) The in-line diffs are a big step up to other apps static previews, and, in theory, just the first collaborative primitive. But, I am getting feedback that "editing" might become a thing of the past. Why do I need to see diffs from Codex/Claude if the models are…
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DocsAlot CLI▲196Let Claude or Codex create and maintain good looking docs
28d ago · docs.docsalot.dev
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2011 · notepag.es
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I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other websites like yourworldoftext that do this but ascii-collab has some extra features like per-user undo/redo, box selection, a color highlight mode to see who made particular changes, and there's admin tools so I can remove spam. The code is open sourced here…
2021
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We're building version control software for Microsoft Office documents that works as well as Git and GitHub do for code. Today, we’re releasing the first component, Draftable for Word, an Office add-in that lets you generate side-by-side diffs, and makes it way less painful to work with Track Changes. Our diffs are designed to look right to humans — instead of machines — showing changes as they might actually have been made by an editor. We'd love to hear your feedback. We’d also love to fix what you find painful about authoring and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents, so get in…
2013
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I read Markdown all day, mostly Claude .md, and other AI outputs. Every app I have tried felt janky or too much work to just read an md file. I just wanted to open a .md file and read it the way Preview opens a PDF. So I built Kite, a Markdown reader for Mac. It has QuickLook just like Preview and I have baked in features that help people reading lot's of AI markdowns. It one-time purchase, no subscription. I put it on TestFlight so you can try it before paying anything. I would really like this crowd to try to break it. Tell me which files render wrong,what feels off, what is missing.…
Jun 2026 · kitemarkdown.com
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Hi HN! I'm proud to share that we've launched a free PDF-to-Markdown CLI built on our proprietary (you might know it from PSPDFKit) engine. Most extractors are either fast but lose structure (markitdown, pymupdf4llm) or accurate but slow (docling). Ours ties with docling on accuracy but is orders of magnitude faster. https://github.com/pspdfkit/pdf-to-markdown We'd love feedback on it, and ofc send us files that break it.
Apr 2026
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I've been using LLMs for long discovery and research chats (papers, repos, best practices), then distilling that into phased markdown (build plan + tests), then handing those phases to Codex/Claude to implement and test phase by phase. The annoying part was always the distillation and keeping docs and architecture current, so I built Unpack: a lightweight GitHub template plus docs structure and a few commands that turns conversations into phases/specs and keeps project docs up to date as the agent builds. It can also generate Mintlify-friendly end-user docs. There are other…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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One coding agent orchestrator UI for Claude and Codex, but actually feels nice. Free, open-source, MIT licensed. Why I built it: - I wanted a lightweight UI as nice as the Codex app, but without the complexity and the custom diffs on the side - I want files and diffs open straight in my editor! - And I wanted both agents - Anthropic + OpenAI — in one place How it works: - No API keys, no OAuth, no separate billing — it just uses whatever you're already logged into. So your Claude Max and ChatGPT/Codex subscriptions both work out of the box. - Talks to Claude Code via the Claude Agent…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN, I'm Rob. Contextify indexes every Claude Code and Codex session on your machine into one local, searchable database. The current session, in either tool, can search all of it: /total-recall in Claude Code, $total-recall in Codex. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvrvRGp4C9M | Mac app: https://contextify.sh (App Store or DMG) | Linux: CLI with a one-line installer, same search. No signup. I split my work between Claude Code and Codex. When I burn through rate limits on one, I switch to the other, and new models keep leapfrogging each other, so the…
Jul 2026 · contextify.sh
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Hi everyone! I built Allein, a Markdown editor powered by Ollama — use your own LLMs locally for AI-assisted writing, completely private, no account required, and works offline. What it does: - Context-aware autocompletion (think GitHub Copilot for Markdown) - Writing improvements (spelling, grammar, readability) - Flexible model selection—swap between different LLMs based on your needs and your device's capabilities - Full-featured Markdown editor with live preview Why I built it: I wanted GitHub Copilot-like autocompletion in a lightweight text editor—something between Apple Notes' basic…
Nov 2025 · github.com
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Mix is an open-source, local agent for multimodal claude code. Claude code users will feel at home. - Uses ffmpeg and local apps like blender instead of clunky cloud based editors - All project data is stored plain text and native media files - absolutely no lock-in. - The backend is an HTTP server, meaning that the frontend is just one of possible clients. - - Our SDK with stdio interface (similar to claude code SDK) is launching soon.
2025 · github.com
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Hi HN, I built a macOS-native Markdown viewer/editor called Markdown Prism. Website: https://prism.huconn.xyz GitHub: https://github.com/hulryung/markdown-prism I originally built this for myself. I wanted a lightweight Markdown viewer on macOS that: wasn’t Electron-based rendered GFM properly supported LaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams worked fully offline Most native apps I tried were either minimal but missing key features (math, diagrams), or full-featured but Electron apps. I wanted something in between — native feel, but with the mature JS Markdown…
Feb 2026 · prism.huconn.xyz
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I built this because I often need clean Markdown from PDFs for writing, documentation, and LLM workflows. Most existing tools either flatten everything into text or rely purely on OCR. I wanted something that preserves structure and is actually usable in Markdown. Feedback welcome.
Jan 2026 · pdftomarkdown.pro
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Jun 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, I'm sure many of you have encountered statically-typed codebases so large and complicated that your code editors freeze, lag, become unresponsive, and generally struggle. Debugging a slow editor is involved and usually an unwelcome distraction. In many cases, slowness in code editors comes from language servers, which are external programs that provide language features (e.g. go-to-definition, diagnostics, type hints). Examples of developer frustrations: [1] and [2]. At a previous company, we were concerned about growing internal frustrations from editors bottle-necked by slow…
2025 · github.com
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