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Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Neptune by Hashnode - Our Markdown-based WYSIWYG editor for composing blog posts

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Neptune is Hashnode's Markdown-based WYSIWYG editor for composing blog posts. Preview formatting as you type, embed multimedia content with a keystroke, add custom HTML, and get instant suggestions on improving your grammar. We're adding AI Assist soon too.

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Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Maker
Hello, Product Hunters! I lead content efforts at Hashnode — a blogging platform for people in tech — and I’m thrilled to introduce Neptune, our new WYSIWYG editor for writing articles. This major revamp brings a raft of new features to our Markdown-based editor to enhance and simplify your blogging experience on Hashnode. We sought to make it easier for everyone building digital things — from programmers to data scientists to UX designers — to share their insights with the world. Wondering why we called it Neptune? Our blog editor’s Markdown and AI underpinnings, which are invisible to authors on our platform, inspired us to name it after something invisible, yet remarkable. We found it: the planet Neptune, which is the farthest one in our Solar System, and can’t be seen by the unaided eye. Here’s why we’re so excited to show you what we’ve been building for the last few months: Neptune lets you see your formatting as you type, so there's no need to toggle between 'write' and 'preview' modes. That’s a lot of time and clicks saved. Oh, and the editor fully supports Markdown, so you can write or paste Markdown content from elsewhere — making it more flexible and easier to work with than before. Inspired by Notion, we added a simple way for you to embed multimedia content blocks with just a keystroke. YouTube videos, GitHub Gists, RunKit notebooks, and tweets are all supported. You can also add custom HTML, math equations in LaTeX, and flexible tables. Neptune also comes with Grammarly built right in, so you can get instant suggestions to fix typos and improve your writing. That should help make it easier to publish error-free posts. We’re also testing an AI Assist feature in Neptune that will generate article outlines, summaries, and code blocks to make publishing easier and faster. Neptune is available to use for free starting today, and we’d love to hear your feedback. We’ll continue fine-tuning the AI functionality for a bit before releasing it in beta in the coming months. Go forth, create a blog for free on Hashnode, and write up a storm with Neptune!
Fazle Rahman
Maker
Hey PH 👋 Fazle here, co-founder Hashnode. The Neptune writing engine is at the heart of the new Hashnode editor. We're thrilled to include AI capabilities in the alpha preview today. If you want to try it out, please leave a comment below. 🙌
David Ryan
@fazlerocks congrats to you and the team, this is an EXCELLENT editor. Given I used to build these for a living (Red Hat and then my own company Corilla), I can genuinely say this is world class. Really loving the integration of code display objects, and the future integration of GPT-3/AI assistance. There's an arm's race on for who rolls them in the best, but the patterns will settle down much like the "in-line formatting UI" patterns did after Medium kicked that door down. Looks like Hashnode is ahead of the curve there. So great. PS: I have a feature request around content syndication, but maybe we make this a community bounty to develop, as I know the crew at Lens Protocol would be keen to see this existing. Ping me if interested... (e.g. use case is a devrel team staging content and pushing to multiple outputs, with basic tracking and sequencing to assist things like GTM campaigns... like you're doing right now!).
Roberto Ruiz
Congrats on the launch! This looks awesome and I can't wait to use it. Are there any plans to make it available either as a desktop app or a PWA? I'd love to use it outside my browser to avoid distractions more easily.
Fazle Rahman
Maker
Thanks, @roberto_ruiz2. Yes, we plan to convert Hashnode into PWA soon. 🙌
Ankur Tyagi
This looks solid and congratulations @fazlerocks @sandeepg33k @aghoshal and the entire team!!!🔥 💪
Fazle Rahman
Maker
@theankurtyagi Glad to hear that!
Jeremiah Ikwuje
Sounds great! As a developer, markdown make my writing feel like coding. Already thinking of moving away from Dillinger to Neptune. Congratulations Hashnode!
Rajat Kapoor
Maker
@ijsucceed Exactly. We wanted to give users the best of both worlds. You can still type and paste markdown, and people who want to avoid markdown can avoid it with Neptune :)
Very cool looking editor! Did you bake your own from scratch or used a library like Editor.js? We use that library for https://Goos.ly and it works really well to get the same output in edit or read mode.
Hilman Ramadhan 🤔
Wow this looks amazing! is it something we can use on our own site? like a plugin
Rajat Kapoor
Maker
@hilmanski Thanks! Not yet. But you can create blogs on your own custom domain using Hashnode and use Hashnode Neptune to power your blogs
Marko Denic
Very nice. Didn't expect the revisions feature. Well done!
Rajat Kapoor
Maker
@denic So good to see you here Marko. Revisions have been in Hashnode for a while now. We need to do a better job of updating our users about the new features :) Our newer updates makes the writing experience even more rewarding and this launch is a way of highlighting that
Prakhar Sharma
Looks great.
Rajat Kapoor
Maker
@ssprakhar Thanks for the support
Ramesh Kumar
Congrats!! all @aghoshal Will give it a try
Ákos K
Congrats everyone! I've been using the new editor for a month now in beta. It's an improvement compared to the old editor in every single aspect. Great job 👏
Fazle Rahman
Maker
Thank you for testing the product in private beta and actively sharing your feedback, @akoskm.
Megha Poojari
Looks promising! Good luck on the launch.
Fazle Rahman
Maker
@megha_poojari Thanks, Megha! :)
Eamonn Cottrell
Nice work @fazlerocks @aghoshal @sandeepg33k && the Hashnode team. This is a huge level up for the content creation experience. Thanks!
Fazle Rahman
Maker
Glad to hear that, @eamonn_cottrell! 🙌
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Maker
@fazlerocks @sandeepg33k @eamonn_cottrell thank you so much for kicking the tires on this, and for your support Eamonn 🙏
Vikrant Bhat
Super excited for this launch! Congrats @aghoshal @sandeepg33k and the entire hashnode team!
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Maker
@sandeepg33k @bhatvikrant thanks a ton Vikrant!
Shushant Lakhyani
This is amazing! Congratulations on the launch!
yash
Congratulations !!!!!!
Fazle Rahman
Maker
@shubham_k721 Thanks 🙏
Mudit Mishra
This looks amazing. Kudos to the team🎉 Great work folks👏🏼
Rajat Kapoor
Maker
@mudit_mishra Thanks! Glad you liked it
Swapnil Patil
Congratulations on the launch!!! @aghoshal, @fazlerocks
Victor Yakubu
Great work to the Hashnode team.
Tapas Adhikary
Yo, congratulations 🎉 @sandeepg33k @fazlerocks and the entire team. You all rock ✌️
Rajat Kapoor
Maker
@sandeepg33k @fazlerocks @tapasadhikary Hope it makes the writing experience better :)
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Maker
@derstartupcfo Cheers Sebastian!