[HN Gopher] Show HN: Marky - A lightweight Markdown viewer for a...
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Show HN: Marky - A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding
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 markdown files. It also has a helpful cli so you can just run
marky FILENAME and have the app open to the md file that you
pointed it at. I've been using the daily over the past week and I
really enjoy it so I figured I'd share it. Here's a video if you
want to check out a demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBxt8uOVjc. I have plans to add
more features such as incorporating agentic tools such as claude
code and codex into the UI as well as developing a local git diff
reviewer to allow me to do local code review before pushing up to
git. I'd love to hear your thoughts and any feature suggestions
you may have :)
Author : GRVYDEV
Score : 21 points
Date : 2026-04-16 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| desireco42 wrote:
| 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.
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| Glad you used Tauri to make this. I will check it out.
| GRVYDEV wrote:
| Oh nice! I've never checked out Typora before I'll take a look
| as well
| _andrei_ wrote:
| ha, nice - had the same need, i leveraged fumadocs for the ui
| part https://github.com/3rd/mdreader
| GRVYDEV wrote:
| Awesome that's a super interesting approach
| FailMore wrote:
| 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).
|
| My approach is a little different. I think Markdown might end up
| being a core document type in the future of work, so I tried to
| blend Markdown with "Office"-like functionality, such as complex
| styling and in-browser editing.
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| Despite being in the browser, the content of SDocs rendered
| Markdown files remain local to you. SDoc urls contain your
| markdown document's content in compressed base64 in the url
| fragment (the bit after the `#`):
|
| https://sdocs.dev/#md=GzcFAMT...(this is the contents of your
| document)...
|
| The url fragment is never sent to the server (see
| https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...:
| "The fragment is not sent to the server when the URI is
| requested; it is processed by the client").
|
| The sdocs.dev webapp is purely a client side decoding and
| rendering engine for the content stored in the url fragment.
|
| This also means you can share your .md files privately by sharing
| the (quite long!) url.
|
| Also, I'm sorry I high jacked your post to some degree with this
| comment. It's just a little too relevant for me not to leave a
| comment! Mine went live on HN only 15 hours ago, and I saw
| another .md renderer on ProductHunt the day before!
|
| I use mine daily too. A solid Markdown renderer definitely makes
| agentic coding a lot more pleasurable.
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