OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

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Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own.The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page.Markdown in a plain <textarea> was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't.I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it better than I ever could.I kept coming back to this problem: why can't I have a simple, perfo

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