Mkdown

[jrajav]

Awesome idea, but it's already been done: http://gist.io/

[jack7890]

Wow, how did I not know that?!

Well, time for mkdown to pivot and rebrand as "gist.io but without serifs."

Seriously though, looks like they did a great job.

[camus2]

gist.io seems broken, just tried it ,doesnt work with my gists.

gist.io/3d0b9deab6f5969c354b

[kylemaxwell]

http://www.roughdraft.io is another tool - honestly, I like seeing more of these so that we have options that do things slightly differently.

[mrchess]

mkdown does private. Gist.io does not support private. +1 for mkdown!

[jack7890]

I should have also mentioned that this is open sourced: https://github.com/jack7890/mkdown (just updated the landing page to reflect that).

[fogleman]

Should at least try to handle code...

http://www.mkdown.com/9382108

Also, mkdown.com fails (without www. subdomain)

[jack7890]

Yeah, maybe for v2. The goal of this was to elegantly share .md files (hence the name), so other file types are outside the scope of what I wanted to build.

re:www, it's working on my end: http://cl.ly/image/371J2a1Z2F1s. But I'll investigate.

[SeoxyS]

Love it. One thing I miss from GitHub's native UI, functionally, is the ability to link to headings. I feel like that should be preserved.

Also, a light theme alternative would be nice.

[zhuzhuor]

Shameless plug :)

http://jist.in

[ozh]

Neat! I like the tagging attempt and the URL schemes.

[peeyek]

when displaying Go lang code it's look weird ( https://db.tt/O4Jbuqzv ). not all code wrap in code tag. mkdown.com/41ec9725ebee05370e58

btw, i love that sintax highlighting. good job!

[abritishguy]

Currently only supports markdown files, if that was a markdown file with the code in a fenced code block it would work.

[sntran]

I did something similar a while back with https://github.com/sntran/gists.io, but was too ambitious to include editor. That got me nowhere. Yours look very nice and simple.

[jxf]

Although http://gist.io has this already, I think I like mkdown's CSS a little better (though there doesn't seem to be <code> styling as of yet). In any case, great work!

[benatkin]

I opened it and thought that pg would approve of the narrow column [0]. Then I looked who made it and saw that it's a founder of one of the best examples of YC (not just companies that are doing well but seem philosophically aligned with YC).

Edit: I was wrong, SeatGeek didn't go through YC. But the company is certainly well-liked around here, partly because of their open source: https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/gfaq.html (last question)

[jonalmeida]

Does it have to be limited to using a gist? Would it be possible to pass in any url to just raw markdown and have that parsed (i.e. like raw.github.com)

Great work though - I wish I saw this last week while showing markdown to others for the first time.

[turnersd]

Can this or any of the other similar renderers be hosted on github as a project page?

[stevekemp]

Unrelated to gists, but I hacked up http://markdownshare.com/ a while back.

It allows quick & easy sharing of markdown text, and you can host your own instance if you wish.

[erikano]

I was hoping this was a simplified Makefile format.

[incanus77]

Another similar idea: http://inkwell.github.io

[import]

I think this is better http://bl.ocks.org/

[stared]

Any such thing allowing to use LaTeX math formulae and citations?

[joeblau]

Seems to work pretty well: http://www.mkdown.com/8783265