Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

Show HN drops Email.md, a tool that turns simple writing into email‑safe layouts, and the comment section immediately turns into a family dinner debate. The pitch is simple: write Markdown, get nice, responsive emails that behave across fussy apps like Gmail and Outlook. But the crowd split fast.

On one side, skeptics rolled in with “we already have tools” energy. One voice called it basically an MJML wrapper—MJML being a framework that builds emails that don’t break, even in clients stuck in 2007. Another dev doubled down: writing HTML (the stuff web pages are made of) “isn’t that hard,” so why add another layer?

Then came the purists: “I wish people just sent plain text.” No frills, no fuss, no promotions tab exile. That worry echoed too—“cool templates, but heavy emails land outside the main inbox.” Meanwhile, a supportive camp cheered the honesty: Email.md isn’t hiding MJML, unlike some trendier projects—cue the shady “cough react email cough” meme. Bonus points were handed to the MJML maintainers for wrestling with the Gmail/Outlook maze so the rest of us don’t have to.

So is Email.md a shortcut for writers who hate HTML, or a shiny extra layer for folks who don’t need it? The jury—aka the comment section—has spoken: useful for Markdown-first teams, controversial to everyone else.