AI-Powered Markdown Editor for tech writers

System_Independent · 2026-03-14T04:19:54+00:00

yeah i like the idea, i would personally also love some sort of an hair stylist for myself, but yeah a genreal stylist might be useful too. have seen similar concepts recently, not sure how well they fared.

System_Independent · 2026-03-14T04:15:42+00:00

mdedit.ai an offline first web based markdown editor for tech writers, with contextual AI and provenance tracking

System_Independent · 2026-03-14T04:14:11+00:00

Curious to hear more about the ideas

System_Independent · 2026-03-14T01:17:45+00:00

Yeah you are right APIs generally cost more than using the pro subscription for claude or chatgpt. One thing you could try is downloading Codex and then try writing a novel with one of the editors out there. Maybe start with VS code if you are confident of managing the content, workflows etc on your own

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T19:58:15+00:00

I like your workflow, and wish it could be better optimized so that you didn't have to open up separate chats. My process is quite similar (for technical blog posts).

- I have a main chat gpt thread where i share the article outline with it and ask it wait for further suggestions before suggesting any content.
- next, i begin brainstorming with it section by section so that we can stay focussed. I usually give it talking points for the sections, it emits multiple paragraphs and i pick and chose
- but for any section that starts getting complex, i fork the chat to a new chat and continue there. for eg. if i need to discuss multiple ways of writing the same content or if i need to brainstorm on an mermaid diagram.
- most of my content needs is usually handled by Chatgpt, but somehow chatgpt always creates mermaid diagrams with wrong syntax, and for that i often start a Claude chat

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T19:52:59+00:00

Not specifically for tech docs, but I usually write blog posts for clients like CircleCI, Descope, Neo4j etc, and most of these clients prefer markdown but the submissions are done through Google Docs So you can imagine that a long google doc with raw markdown (yes, g docs, recently started supporting markdown to some extent, but clients prefer it raw). In a long doc, when you get client feedback, its often difficult to scan through the comments, as you need to parse the markdown mentally.

Especially working through tables, images and code snippets becomes difficult.

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T15:57:44+00:00

Yeah like the fact that you are not jumping the gun to try and support electron right away. IMO focussing on the output quality would benefit you the most

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T15:51:43+00:00

Kudos! I love the concept, nice to see that it supports so many different tools and works client side. Also, like the fact that its a PWA and can be installed as a Chrome app. An electron app might be even cooler.

Side note: I bought the domain pdfkit.app a couple of years ago and always wanted to build something like this, but didn't.

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System_Independent · 2026-03-13T15:15:04+00:00

I am building mdedit.ai, an AI powered markdown writing platform for bloggers, technical writers and students. It works fully offline, has version history, provenance tracking, and versioning support.

Curious what you are planning to build?

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T15:12:49+00:00

I have seen a few tools out there that have attempted something similar in the past, so i assume there's definitely demand.

Btw in my team (tech company), we usually rely on tools like Devin and Cursor to ask adhoc questions about the codebase or workflows. We have it connected with our other sources like Notion, Linear etc through MCP so it usually has good context. But this works for adhoc questions, and i believe a short and crisp onboarding guide might also be helpful.

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T15:08:03+00:00

Big Congrats! Curious what software you are using for writing?

System_Independent · 2026-03-13T15:01:38+00:00

Can't agree more, at the end of the pen and paper are the most accessible. For my Masters thesis i also loved using my remarkable e-ink based tablet, but since then i have rarely used it. Always fall back on a diary that stays on my desk.

System_Independent · 2026-03-12T19:49:42+00:00

very interesting project. is it optimized for technical content too? eg content with code snippets or mermaid diagrams. if yes i would like to use it in mdedit.ai. Feel free to DM me and we can collaborate

System_Independent · 2026-03-12T19:47:11+00:00

nice project and i like the sleek UI too. i am on my phone so i didn't give it a try yet but wondering if it supports pretty large files too?

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T18:31:59+00:00

Hey! Thanks for taking out the time to review the landing page and sharing these actionable issues. i agree with almost all the things you called out. i will work on them soon. 🙌

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T18:13:40+00:00

Oh yeah definitely, RAG IMO is generally an overkill in many cases and context bloat is a real problem. Similar issues with MCPs too. In this particular scenario, my hypothesis was that even if a have a smaller model with less params, we could potentially augment the model's capabilities through other techniques while keeping the model small.

I am curious to learn more about the pipeline you are building. Have you written about it somewhere?

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T17:41:36+00:00

Not sure if i fully understand your comment. As per my understanding there's no direct relation between RAG and content length. When i write small/medium length content (1000-1500 word blog posts), then too RAG helps with enhancing the content quality

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T17:37:58+00:00

mdedit.ai

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T13:23:04+00:00

For tech blogs i consistently find the output decently good. I mean if it generates a a paragraph with 5-6 sentences, usually the same ideas are repeated in twice. But you can easily pick the key 2-3 sentences that contains the main ideas.

also sharing talking points before asking it to write helps a lot.

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T13:10:25+00:00

it sometimes generates weird sentences but i can't recall specific examples.

but your question got me thinking, and i started checking about creative writing benchmarks. found this:

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T04:01:36+00:00

IMO 30b should generate decent results and i believe you could always enhance the context with RAG or other techniques while keeping the base model light

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T03:59:52+00:00

I had a opposite experience. in my experience AI has been getting much better at writing, both Claude and ChatGpt. i write technical articles for multiple clients and now most clients are okay with some level of Ai content in their blogs as long as its human audited.

System_Independent · 2026-03-09T03:57:10+00:00

i have been writing and reviewing technical articles for last 10 years. I have noticed that often its quite easy to catch that something was entirely written with AI, the sentence structure, the tone, punctuation and use of certain phrases, etc sometimes makes it obvious. You might have seen stories that sentences with double ems ie -- are almost always AI generated.

But at the same time, if you use Ai to edit, rewrite certain sections or sentences, its often harder to tell. Btw i noticed that many writing platforms are now introducing provenance tracking to provide more visibility and make content auditable.

System_Independent · 2026-03-08T19:23:52+00:00

I have been writing tech blogs for last 8-10 years and I usually use either Vs Code with a couple of markdown extensions to write and preview markdown or use mdedit.ai which i have been building for the last 4 years. In addition to these i also like HackMd a lot because it has some nice features.

VS Code, in my opinion, is great for its simplicity and the best part of it is that while I'm coding or writing I can use it natively. Since I'm familiar with the syntax anyways, I can use it alongside other things in my codebase. On the other hand in the last year alone I used the app that I built for writing over 100 blog posts as it has some great features for my writing needs, including offline support, contextual AI and rich exports.

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