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Work · August 21, 2025

Pinery

Hi HN, I'm Heberti, the solo developer working on Pinery. I've spent the last couple of years building Pinery with a single mission: I wanted a tool that bridged the gap between simple Markdown editors and complex layout software like InDesign. Pinery is my attempt at a solution. It combines a clean, distraction-free Markdown editor with a powerful, real-time visual styling mode. You can control typography, spacing, and layout visually, and see the changes instantly. Key features: - Write in Markdown with AI-assisted text tools (leveraging macOS frameworks) - Customize the design with…

Pinery launched on August 21, 2025 with 161 votes, #206 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

The all-in-one solution for writing, designing, and self-publishing books with Markdown. This fully native macOS app makes it feel like it’s part of the system, and it’s blazing fast.

Write, edit, design and export your book in one native Mac app. Prose edits inside the manuscript and every change arrives as a diff you accept or reject.

Prose is an AI editor that works in the margin of your manuscript, never in a separate chat window. Describe what you need, or reach for a skill. Nothing lands in your book without your review. Prose can read the whole chapter first. Its edits are shown as reviewable diffs. See exactly what changes, then accept or reject. Your voice stays yours. Ask for an illustration and Prose draws artwork that belongs in your book. Grounded in your chapter, saved to your assets, ready to place. A real paginated preview with a full style system: fonts, spacing, alignment, footers. Set it once and every chapter follows. Flip between PDF pages and a Kindle e-ink simulator without leaving the app. Catch…from pinery.app

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, I'm Heberti, the solo developer working on Pinery. I've spent the last couple of years building Pinery with a single mission: I wanted a tool that bridged the gap between simple Markdown editors and complex layout software like InDesign. Pinery is my attempt at a solution. It combines a clean, distraction-free…

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