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I make an app for macOS that makes it easy to make offline viewers for documents like this (https://repla.app/ https://repla.app/). Would anyone be interested i

I make an app for macOS that makes it easy to make offline viewers for documents like this (https://repla.app/ https://repla.app/). Would anyone be interested in having an offline viewer for this? E.g., being able to drag a `mindmap.md` file to the app icon, and have it render the mindmap and automatically update when you make changes in your text editor. (I'm aware there are other ways to do offline views like this, happy to explain the relative pros and cons of Repla's approach versus others as I see them, if anyone is curious, just ask!)

edraferi 7y ago
Yup! Every time I see something like this, my thought process is: “Cool, that could be useful for X” “Hmm X is proprietary. I’m not typing into some random website.” “Can I run this locally?” “Nope, not natively. Is it worth my time to hack it?”
- rgoodwintx 7y ago
  Down for this also. If you have a way to sign up for testers etc I'd be up. (Down, up, what is language? :) )
  - robenkleene 7y ago
    Definitely! There’s an email sign up at the bottom of the page here https://repla.app/ https://repla.app/ The app is already available to download and try, with a couple of interesting use cases you can read about on the site. We're also shipping a Markdown preview that's in testing now shortly. The next plugins we're looking at after that are Mermaid (https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/ https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and now Markmap too.
sailfast 7y ago
Yes. In fact, I was wondering if I could "just" run the REPL from the MarkMap website locally. Would make things a lot easier.
robenkleene 7y ago
Thanks for the input! I'm also looking at supporting Mermaid diagramming https://mermaid-js.github.io/ https://mermaid-js.github.io/ I'd love to hear if people have other good use cases for this model, e.g., of having a plain text file you edit in a text editor accompanied by a rendered web document view of the same file.
- gardenfelder 7y ago
  https://github.com/mermaid-js https://github.com/mermaid-js
- rmateu 7y ago
  Mermaid was the first thing I looked for. Looks very interesting. Will keep an eye out, congrats!
- mycall 7y ago
  Main problem I've had using mermaid for large flowcharts is that the SVG gets cut off on the edges sometimes.
- jazzdev 7y ago
  Mermaid can be plugged into Pandoc, so you can create decent PDF docs in Markdown that include diagrams. We store the Markdown files in git and have a Makefile that converts to PDF.
nexuist 7y ago
This is such a cool idea...please let me know when it's in beta. I also highly recommend you submit it as a Show HN.

edraferi 7y ago

Yup! Every time I see something like this, my thought process is: “Cool, that could be useful for X” “Hmm X is proprietary. I’m not typing into some random website.” “Can I run this locally?” “Nope, not natively. Is it worth my time to hack it?”

rgoodwintx 7y ago
Down for this also. If you have a way to sign up for testers etc I'd be up. (Down, up, what is language? :) )
- robenkleene 7y ago
  Definitely! There’s an email sign up at the bottom of the page here https://repla.app/ https://repla.app/ The app is already available to download and try, with a couple of interesting use cases you can read about on the site. We're also shipping a Markdown preview that's in testing now shortly. The next plugins we're looking at after that are Mermaid (https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/ https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and now Markmap too.

sailfast 7y ago

Yes. In fact, I was wondering if I could "just" run the REPL from the MarkMap website locally. Would make things a lot easier.

robenkleene 7y ago

Thanks for the input! I'm also looking at supporting Mermaid diagramming https://mermaid-js.github.io/ https://mermaid-js.github.io/ I'd love to hear if people have other good use cases for this model, e.g., of having a plain text file you edit in a text editor accompanied by a rendered web document view of the same file.

gardenfelder 7y ago
https://github.com/mermaid-js https://github.com/mermaid-js
rmateu 7y ago
Mermaid was the first thing I looked for. Looks very interesting. Will keep an eye out, congrats!
mycall 7y ago
Main problem I've had using mermaid for large flowcharts is that the SVG gets cut off on the edges sometimes.
jazzdev 7y ago
Mermaid can be plugged into Pandoc, so you can create decent PDF docs in Markdown that include diagrams. We store the Markdown files in git and have a Makefile that converts to PDF.

nexuist 7y ago

This is such a cool idea...please let me know when it's in beta. I also highly recommend you submit it as a Show HN.