Quarkdown is a modern, fast, Markdown-based typesetting system to create papers, presentations, knowledge bases and websites. Write in the markup language you're already familiar with for a flat learning curve, but juice it up with powerful extensions for full control over your documents, and live preview to enter flow state faster. Quarkdown runs on VS Code or your terminal.
I'm the author and project lead of Quarkdown. What started as a simple university research project eventually evolved into a full-fledged typesetting system for writers, developers, and anyone who cares about control.
I've been building open source software for the past 10 years. Making things is what I love the most, and I'm driven by passion for what I do.
If you try it out, please share your feedback! And if not, a star goes a long way ⭐️
I’m aware of the typo in the subtitle: a Product Hunt moderator changed my original description right before launch and left a typo there that I’m not able to edit out! I’m waiting for support to edit it for me
Hey Giorgio, congrats on the launch! markdown + latex in one system is an achievement by itself, but the syntactic ambiguity is brutal. How are you resolving the underscore problem (italic in markdown vs subscript in latex)? mode-switch on $..$ delimiters, or some smarter context inference? anyway, best of luck!
Markdown + LaTeX in one toolchain solves a real pain for anyone teaching technical material — the eternal trade-off between "easy to write" and "professional output" usually forces a Word doc or a Notion page that can't render formulas properly. From a curriculum design angle, this could be a meaningful unlock: I teach Excel for Financial Modelling on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/course/excel-for-financial-modelling/) and the supporting handouts (DCF formulas, IRR derivations, NPV calc walkthroughs) are exactly the case where a Markdown-first authoring flow with proper math rendering would have saved me weeks. Quick question — does Quarkdown export to printable PDF with selectable formulas, or are equations rasterized?
About Quarkdown on Product Hunt
“Markdown wit LaTeX in a modern typesetting system”
Quarkdown launched on Product Hunt on April 30th, 2026 and earned 114 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Quarkdown is a modern, fast, Markdown-based typesetting system to create papers, presentations, knowledge bases and websites. Write in the markup language you're already familiar with for a flat learning curve, but juice it up with powerful extensions for full control over your documents, and live preview to enter flow state faster. Quarkdown runs on VS Code or your terminal.
Quarkdown was featured in Open Source (68.3k followers), Writing (59.2k followers), Developer Tools (511.7k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 108.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Quarkdown?
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Giorgio Garofalo
Hey Hunters!
I'm the author and project lead of Quarkdown. What started as a simple university research project eventually evolved into a full-fledged typesetting system for writers, developers, and anyone who cares about control.
I've been building open source software for the past 10 years. Making things is what I love the most, and I'm driven by passion for what I do.
If you try it out, please share your feedback! And if not, a star goes a long way ⭐️