Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

A new app called Write.md showed up promising a dreamy, customizable writing space for Mac users: free, open source, no account, no tracking, and packed with mood-setting options like fonts, window transparency, and even image or video backgrounds. On paper, it’s a love letter to people who want their writing app to feel like a cozy late-night room instead of a blank box. It even offers optional Vim-style controls and local spelling help, which basically means extra writing tools without sending your work off to some mystery cloud.

But the real action was in the comments, where the launch got yanked out of soft-focus café vibes and straight into a mini food fight. The biggest drama? People saw “Made for Apple silicon” and immediately side-eyed the reveal that it’s built with Electron, a popular app framework that some users treat like a four-letter word. One commenter basically said, “Wait, this is what you meant?” Another groaned that they wanted a side-by-side writing view like their old app, then hit us with the classic shocked follow-up: “Oh, electron?!”

There was also plenty of mockery over the app’s glossy visual style, with one person joking this was the first time “glass” had been used as a selling point. And hovering over the whole thread was one big suspicious question: do we really need another Markdown editor? One commenter summed up the collective eye-roll perfectly by wondering whether making these apps is just an irresistible hobby now, or if AI is mass-producing them. Ouch. The final dagger came from the simplest comment of all: “how is it different from obsidian?” In other words: pretty room, sure — but is this a fresh idea, or just another notebook app in nicer lighting?