Does this markdown documentation tool exist?
So today I was looking into options for adding a documentation/knowledge base for plausible.io
I can write markdown fluidly so the fastest option would be to use a markdown-based documentation.
There are plenty of open-source site generators and what not, but I don't want to deal with hosting this myself. I would gladly pay $5-10/month right now for a solution where I just push some markdown files to my github repo and get a nice looking documentation site automatically.
The ideal product would:
master, this thing would pick up the change, build HTML docs from markdown, and deploy it to its own hosting system.docs.plausible.io to it and live happily ever after.The closest to this is Gitbook I think? However, their plans start from $35/month which is pretty steep. And I don't like that they went away from git/github as the central model. I'd prefer to have the raw markdown files in a github repo I own.
What do you think? Am I missing something? Would you use a product like this?
#idea-validation
What’s wrong with https://pages.github.com/ ? You might use https://github.com/slashdotdash/jekyll-lunr-js-search to add search to your static site.
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My suggestion is to use VuePress and deploy with Now, $0/mo.
https://zeit.co/examples/vuepress
I believe readthedocs.org is this
https://www.gitbook.com/ seems to fit your needs.
md2kb.com
I had been working on this. Shared the idea too here. But did not get much support to finish it.
Just in my version the raw md file would be in the root folder for now. Github is a good way too.
Hi, what methods did you try to increase adoption? Just trying to learn what happened.
Hey, did not quite reach that stage.
Hi! I had a similar itch and all i found were static html generators for markdown. After talking to a few people, I realized that there is a small market for such a service nestled between self hosted static generated docs and gitbook's paid plan.
I decided to try building such a service for fun and in the process of launching a bare bones version next week. I'm glad that there is another person looking for such a service.
I feel $15 is a better price point. What do you think?
Cool! I'll follow you for updates on this.
On pricing, I pay $7/month for my heroku dyno which builds and runs the app server. As a customer I wouldn't expect to pay double for hosting a static site.
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