Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Lorem Markdownum, my weekend project
Lorem Markdownum is a webapp that generates placeholder text in markdown format, inspired by traditional lorem ipsum generators. Built in Haskell, it uses Markov Chains and heuristics to create structured dummy content… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lorem Markdownum, my weekend project launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2024 · markwhen.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back. I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal. Very much a work in progress.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…
2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →
- 4Copy as Markdown▲302
Convert text to markdown for LLMs like ChatGPT
2025 · copyasmarkdown.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on markwhen for a bit as a way to create timelines and calendars from plain text, like markdown. I personally like tools that let you immediately start using them, and I set out to do that here with markwhen. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
2023 · app.markwhen.com · its alternatives →
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🧜♀️ RESTful rendering pipeline for generating sequence and UML diagrams using Mermaid for Markdown docs (Diagrams as a Service) - Schachte/Mermrender
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DOM to Semantic-Markdown for use with LLMs. Contribute to romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Make a cascading timeline from markdown-like text. Supports simple American/European date styles, ISO8601, images, links, locations, and more. - mark-when/markwhen
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, In this age of agentic coding I've found myself spending a lot of time reviewing markdown files. Whether it's plans or documentation that I've asked my agent to generate for me, it seems that I spend more time reading markdown than code. I've tried a few different solutions to make it easier to read such as Obsidian however I've found their Vault system to be quite limiting for this use case and I've found TUI solutions to not quite be as friendly to read as I've wanted so I made Marky. Marky is a lightweight desktop application that makes it incredibly easy to read and track your…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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📝 create a webpage with just markdown. Contribute to oscarmorrison/md-page development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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✨ A GitHub Action that automatically generates & updates markdown content (like your README.md) from external or remote files. - dineshsonachalam/markdown-autodocs
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Markdown Studio▲126Markdown editor built for the AI workflow era
Dec 2025 · mdstudio.app · its alternatives →
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2024 · blocks.md · its alternatives →
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Markdown conversion tool for the AI era.
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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An elegant markdown blog generator using Jekyll
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Markdown as Web Page/Site. Contribute to casualwriter/casual-markdown-page development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Make a cascading timeline from markdown-like text. Supports simple American/European date styles, ISO8601, images, links, locations, and more. - mark-when/markwhen
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quarkdown▲127Quarkdown is a Markdown-based, Turing-complete typesetting system that combines LaTeX's output quality, Typst's programmability, and Markdown's simplicity to create papers, articles, presentations, static sites and documentation. Quarkdown 2.4 introduces a way to override the behavior and styling of any Markdown element, getting on par with Typst's powerful `#show` rules. Quarkdown is free and open source. Any feedback is welcome!
Apr 2026 · quarkdown.com · its alternatives →
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Scipress is a writing platform with VS code editor built into the browser. It lets you make beautiful blog posts and programming docs with Markdown. Scipress supports code blocks with syntax highlighting, Katex, Tailwind CSS, images & videos, admonitions, popovers, blur screens, private posts, and a bunch of other cool stuff. You can also monetize via paywalls, if you want. I started this project almost a year ago to the date. This is my first time posting about it on HN. And if you're curious, I have made $0 from this project (but not for lack of trying).
2024 · scipress.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · writer.math.dev · its alternatives →
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