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Neptune by Hashnode — Our Markdown-based WYSIWYG editor for composing blog posts
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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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!
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. 🙌
@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!).
Nifty -- What are the chances of Neptune having SEO capabilities? I was looking to move from Blogger to a new platform for my portfolio.
@runtcpip Hey Morgan 👋 Neptune has SEO chops built in — you can add tags, an SEO title, and a meta description to your posts. It works pretty well, as people who've used our platform have attested! https://twitter.com/cyberethical...
https://twitter.com/rbluethl/sta...
Proud disclaimer: @rbluethl, whose tweet I've linked above, is *now* part of our team at Hashnode :)
You can create a blog on Hashnode for free and map it to your own domain easily. Take it for a spin and see if it works for you!
@vimfinn Thanks Finn! Please share your feedback with us when you've had more time with it 🙏
Super cool! Kind of looks like my Markdown editor https://devdojo.com/markdownx, whatever makes it easier for developers to create cool content. I'm down.
Great job on this 🤘
Sounds great! As a developer, markdown make my writing feel like coding. Already thinking of moving away from Dillinger to Neptune.
Congratulations Hashnode!
@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 :)
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.
Thanks, @roberto_ruiz2. Yes, we plan to convert Hashnode into PWA soon. 🙌
Congratulations @fazlerocks @sandeepg33k @aghoshal and the team 🔥
This WYSIWYG editor reminds me of the WP Classis editor, Now I'm not gonna miss it ☺
The product is getting better and better with time. Markdown support makes a day for any developer. I was thinking a move from medium to hashnode and It seems a perfect time to move on!
Nice work @fazlerocks @aghoshal @sandeepg33k && the Hashnode team. This is a huge level up for the content creation experience. Thanks!
@fazlerocks @sandeepg33k @eamonn_cottrell thank you so much for kicking the tires on this, and for your support Eamonn 🙏
Quality work this.
It's fascinating how Hashnode has grown over the last few months.
Feels great to be a part of this lovely community.
You guys are genuinely taking the experience of Dev Blogging to a whole new level. Congratulations folks!
@sreekeshiyer thank you for the kind words Sreekesh — and for testing the Neptune beta 🙏
Love it! Trying it out immediately!
One quick observation: a lot of steps in the UX (adding a custom DNS, adding a widget) don’t have a cancel/back button and only a “proceed” kind of button. It makes it hard to back out of the step, and hinders learning/experimenting with the tool.
@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
Wow this looks amazing!
is it something we can use on our own site? like a plugin
@hilmanski Thanks!
Not yet. But you can create blogs on your own custom domain using Hashnode and use Hashnode Neptune to power your blogs
Thank you for testing the product in private beta and actively sharing your feedback, @akoskm.
Super excited for this launch!
Congrats @aghoshal @sandeepg33k and the entire hashnode team!
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