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Show HN: Kraa.io – Markdown editor for notes, blogs, chats

by levmiseri on 5/21/25, 5:22 AM with 27 comments

Hi HN! Excited to share the public beta of Kraa – a web-based markdown editor.

It's aiming to be distraction-free and has strong separation of the document's styling from the experience of writing it — while still alowing for rich customization. Example of a leaf with custom styles: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary

Curious about your feedback in hopes of improving Kraa before the planned launch later this year.

  • by mrweasel on 5/21/25, 8:41 AM

    What's the point of editors like this. It looks really well done, but it's not the first, and I don't see the point of any of them.

    I don't get why I would need a web-based editor (markdown or other formats). I can perhaps see the point in a collaboration editor, but that's a special case.

    Where's the "save" button? Where is my stuff stored? After clicking around a bit I got stuff in the edit mode and now I can't get back to the frontpage.

    Perhaps this is an age thing, but files goes on my hard drive, I organise them using a file manager. Files shouldn't be stuck in a browser.

    It says I can write blog posts, but how do I export files to my blog? Is there Wordpress integration? Git?

  • by levmiseri on 5/21/25, 5:23 AM

    Here is a public leaf to showcase how chatting works with Kraa's unique 'writer' role: https://kraa.io/hackernews

  • by zeroq on 5/21/25, 7:29 AM

    Feedback: backlink is not working as expected, i've tried several times - initially i clicked on sth, clicked back and it got me to "private mode" (new leaf, search), when i tried again and clicked on a one of showcase links and the clicked back twice it brought me back to the "private mode" again, seems quite finicky.

    EDIT: repro: seems like spa app tries to be smart about browser.history - just click random things and try to use back button

  • by abdullahajmal on 5/21/25, 7:18 AM

    The website is cleannnn! Keep up the good work!

  • by chrisvalleybay on 5/21/25, 6:34 AM

    Well – chatting in there sure was a fun experience! This gave off Google Wave vibes, back when it launched.

  • by thestepafter on 5/21/25, 6:34 AM

    Just had a great conversation with multiple people, really like the concept displayed in the showcase.

  • by frank20022 on 5/21/25, 8:51 AM

    Looks nice, but what is the value proposition? Why this versus many other distraction free editors?

  • by Ettaa on 5/21/25, 3:57 PM

    Feels like I’ve rehydrated a long-dormant thread—my desire to write is back online.

  • by GuillaumeAirGen on 5/21/25, 7:26 AM

    Looks nice! What tangible arguments do you have for me to switch from Notion to Kraa?

  • by bertocast on 5/21/25, 10:27 AM

    I have been looking for something similar for a while. Thanks for this.

  • by yasir326 on 5/21/25, 6:40 AM

    This is very clean and clutter free. I really like simplicity

  • by xcanchal on 5/21/25, 4:51 PM

    Nice! Markdown is everything we need

  • by djbelieny on 5/23/25, 3:41 AM

    Ok, this may get downvoted but if you are Brazilian and specially from Rio de Janeiro, and you're reading this domain name, you are 100% laughing at this name. Pejorative to some, but funny AF.

  • by alexnewman on 5/21/25, 1:07 PM

    seems down

  • by gugocharade on 5/21/25, 1:04 PM

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  • by patrick4urcloud on 5/21/25, 7:06 AM

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