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Product Positioning & Context
Ever asked yourself why all of those SKILL.md files are rendered in plain text in MacOS Preview? showmd is a free, native macOS Quick Look extension that renders Markdown beautifully. YAML frontmatter parsed into a collapsible metadata table — collapsed by default, one click to expand. No other viewer does this. Agentic AI XML tags — and 17 more — rendered as labeled, bordered blocks instead of raw angle brackets.
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Deep-Dive FAQs
What is showmd?
showmd is a digital product or tool described as: Markdown was never meant to be previewed plain text
Where did showmd originate?
Data for showmd was aggregated directly from the Product Hunt community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was showmd publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for showmd within our tracked developer communities was recorded on April 13, 2026.
How popular is showmd?
showmd has achieved measurable traction, logging over 152 traction score and facilitating 26 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define showmd?
Based on metadata extraction, showmd is categorized under topics such as: Mac, Open Source, User Experience.
How does the creator describe showmd?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Ever asked yourself why all of those SKILL.md files are rendered in plain text in MacOS Preview? showmd is a free, native macOS Quick Look extension that renders Markdown beautifully. YAML frontmat..."
Community Voice & Feedback
I have a folder of nothing but .md files CLAUDE.md, MEMORY.md, various agent instructions and opening any of them in Finder has been genuinely painful for two years. Installing this right now!
Good idea in theory. I’ve seen a lot of markdown preview tools, but most fall apart once you hit larger repos or mixed content. Curious how this compares.
Sounded like my cup of team, so I tried to install with brew and==> Fetching downloads for: johannesnagl/tap/showmd✘ Cask showmd (1.0.1)Error: Download failed on Cask 'showmd' with message: Download failed: https://github.com/johannesnagl/showmd/releases/download/v1.0.1/showmd-1.0.1.zipcurl: (56) The requested URL returned error: 504
finally. something everyone needed but no one had the courage to ask for :)
Hi @jollife ! App works great, I was looking for exactly this - I hate looking at md source ;).
bold positioning. most markdown apps lean into the 'it's just text' thing - this is the counter-argument.
What a great outcome from our first coding evening in years 🎉 You’ve added a lot of nice features to our initial minimal prototype – Well done!
Hey PH! 👋
You might know me from Holdor (my first side project in years launched last month here on PH) — after that launch I dove deeper into developer tooling, and one daily frustration kept nagging me.
I work with Markdown files all day. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, README.md — they're everywhere now. But every time I hit Space in Finder to Quick Look one, I'd get a wall of raw text. Hashes, dashes, angle brackets. Unreadable.
So I did some research. There are a few tools that handle basic Markdown formatting, sure. But none of them understand how Markdown is actually used today — especially in agentic AI workflows. YAML frontmatter? Rendered as noise. Custom XML tags like , , ? Just raw angle brackets.
That's the gap I built showmd for.
It's a free, native macOS Quick Look extension. Press Space on any .md file and get an instant, beautifully rendered preview — with frontmatter parsed into a collapsible metadata table, 20+ agentic AI XML tags styled as labeled blocks, syntax highlighting for 190+ languages, KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and full GitHub Flavored Markdown support. All offline, all bundled, zero config.
Since launching so many side projects again is fun, I thought: let's group everything together under my new side project brand yetanother.one — which should indicate: yes, I have lots of ideas, and yes... those happen mostly at night.
Hope you like it! Let me know what I should build next? Spoiler: I'm currently working on something completely different — a new Android launcher.
You might know me from Holdor (my first side project in years launched last month here on PH) — after that launch I dove deeper into developer tooling, and one daily frustration kept nagging me.
I work with Markdown files all day. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, README.md — they're everywhere now. But every time I hit Space in Finder to Quick Look one, I'd get a wall of raw text. Hashes, dashes, angle brackets. Unreadable.
So I did some research. There are a few tools that handle basic Markdown formatting, sure. But none of them understand how Markdown is actually used today — especially in agentic AI workflows. YAML frontmatter? Rendered as noise. Custom XML tags like , , ? Just raw angle brackets.
That's the gap I built showmd for.
It's a free, native macOS Quick Look extension. Press Space on any .md file and get an instant, beautifully rendered preview — with frontmatter parsed into a collapsible metadata table, 20+ agentic AI XML tags styled as labeled blocks, syntax highlighting for 190+ languages, KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and full GitHub Flavored Markdown support. All offline, all bundled, zero config.
Since launching so many side projects again is fun, I thought: let's group everything together under my new side project brand yetanother.one — which should indicate: yes, I have lots of ideas, and yes... those happen mostly at night.
Hope you like it! Let me know what I should build next? Spoiler: I'm currently working on something completely different — a new Android launcher.
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