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MDX
The Markdown editor for people who don't write Markdown
A WYSIWYG Markdown editor for the AI era. Open themd files ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini just gave you and edit them like a Word document — tweak a sentence, fix a heading, drop in a table, save it back as plain Markdown. Click-to-format math, citations, diagrams. Export to DOCX, PDF or HTML with a numbered bibliography. Optional Tab-to-complete ghost-writer uses your own API key. Local-first. No account. No telemetry. $15 one-time. macOS, Windows, Linux.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Vincent, the maker of MDX.
Here's the moment that started this: I asked ChatGPT for some notes, it handed me back a .md file, and I sat there staring at ## Headings and **asterisks** thinking "why am I editing source code to fix a typo in a paragraph?"
Every Markdown editor I tried fell into one of two camps:
Source editors (Obsidian, Typora-ish, VS Code) — you type the syntax, you live in the syntax. Fine if you write Markdown all day. Not fine if you're just trying to clean up an AI's output.
"Notion-likes" — beautiful, but your text lives in their database, behind their account, on their servers. The file is gone.
I wanted the third option: a real desktop app that looks like a document, but the file on disk stays plain .md. Click to bold. Click to insert a table. Click to type an equation — actually type it, not write LaTeX. Cite from a .bib library and export to Word with a numbered bibliography. Plug in your own Claude/OpenAI/Gemini key for Tab-to-complete and pay your provider, not me.
That's MDX. Built in Rust + Tauri so it's tiny and native on macOS, Windows and Linux. No account. No telemetry. No subscription — $15 once and it's yours.
Thanks for taking a look 🧡
— Vincent
About MDX on Product Hunt
“The Markdown editor for people who don't write Markdown”
MDX was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #31 on the daily leaderboard. A WYSIWYG Markdown editor for the AI era. Open themd files ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini just gave you and edit them like a Word document — tweak a sentence, fix a heading, drop in a table, save it back as plain Markdown. Click-to-format math, citations, diagrams. Export to DOCX, PDF or HTML with a numbered bibliography. Optional Tab-to-complete ghost-writer uses your own API key. Local-first. No account. No telemetry. $15 one-time. macOS, Windows, Linux.
On the analytics side, MDX competes within Productivity, Writing and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how MDX performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted MDX?
MDX was hunted by Vincent Xing. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of MDX including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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