Hey everyone! I'm Natalia, and this is my first time launching something at Product Hunt. I've been building quite a few apps lately with the help of AI, and I thought I'd give it a try by spreading this one out. I built Readdown out of my own frustration: every time I wanted to have just a quick look at any .md file on my Mac, it would open in Xcode. A full, heavy IDE just to read a text file. It was driving me CRAZY. I tried defaulting to other options like VS Code, since that's mostly always opened, or TextEdit to be more lightweight, but they all felt wrong for just a quick read and would get in the way of my workflow. I didn't want to edit the files, I just wanted to see the rendered Markdown without hassle. So I built Readdown. It does one thing: opens .md files and renders them beautifully. That's it. My favorite part is that I also added Quick Look support, so you can select any .md file in Finder, press spacebar, and you get a fully rendered preview without even opening the app. Once you get used to it, you can't go back. It's native Swift, follows your system dark/light mode, and has zero telemetry, and it's also public on Github if you'd like to catch (and fix) my (and Claude's) bugs. Would love to hear your thoughts! Cheers.

Readdown

Stop opening .md files in whatever your Mac defaults to

Stop opening .md files in whatever your Mac defaults to