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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by koch on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:41PM (#36949253)
The pricing structure I'm going for is offline == free, online/collaborate == paid.

There's a promo code on the most recent blog entry (https://blog.markwhen.com) for those who are interested

Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by mholt on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:17PM (#36949640)
This is neat! I've been following it for a few months.

Would my app be able to generate a Markwhen file and then embed the viewer to view it? Would that be free or paid?

Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by koch on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:23PM (#36949690)
The viewer is open source[0], so yeah you can embed it in an iframe (that's what the editor does), and just `postMessage` the parsed markwhen and some additional state to it. The structure of the posted data is here[1]. I'm happy to help, [email protected] or I'm in the markwhen discord[2]

[0] https://github.com/mark-when/timeline

[1] https://github.com/mark-when/view-client/blob/9eddc1a2cf79b4...

[2] https://discord.gg/3rTpUD94ac

Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by mholt on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:13PM (#36951529)
Perfect, thanks!
Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by DocTomoe on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:29AM (#36953729)
Hm, I am trying to consolidate my toolchain these days. This is neat, but not 'I need another program running / another website in my life' neat. If you make an Obsidian plugin, I'd happily pay for that.
Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by davidktr on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:50AM (#36954187)
As others said, markwhen is awesome, but I'm not sure I'd use it as a standalone tool. I would definitely pay for a VSCode and Obsidian plugin to easily integrate it in existing workflows.

Is there any way to accept pledges for such plugins to gauge how many people would really pay for it, and how much?