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Can someone write a Markdown guide for Indie Hackers?

This is me just testing out some stuff. If nobody does it, I'll do it myself as soon as I figure out what works and what doesn't. I've been only using markdown text for a few weeks in a different editor, so...

THE BIGGEST HEADING # - So this one isn't working. I guess its reserved for the title.

THE BIG HEADING

THE SMALL HEADING

Ok, so that works. How about some ==highlighted text==
Guess, not.

How about bold and italic?
Yay!

I mean, if this doesn't work...

print (Hello World) OK, thank god. Can be used for code.

Code example
const app = express() app.use(bodyParser.json()) app.use('/api/products', products) app.use('/api/orders', orders) const port = process.env.PORT || '3000' app.listen(port)

But also this (could be used to highlight a big chunk of text as well, I guess.)

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 25
}

Text example. You have to play with it a bit to get it looking like you want to.

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and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum 
has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 
1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type 
and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. 
It has survived not only five centuries, 
but also the leap into electronic typesetting, 
remaining essentially unchanged.
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including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

How about linking a text. I work at Treblle, an API observability platform

And images. How do we do images?
There's apparently a number of ways to do this, still figuring that one out.

For now, before someone does a good old-fashioned dumbed-down explanation most of the stuff from the link provided by IH works. https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/

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    IH is a subset of Github-flavored Markdown, just whatever parts @csallen wanted to implement.

    H1 probably isn't implemented because each page should only have one and it would be really disruptive to have them in comments anyway.

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      Yup, figured as much. H1 should be just for the main title.

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    Hey,

    Check out my markdown files for my packages and just taking it. It's pretty useful since it's all open source:

    https://github.com/Sulstice/global-chem
    https://github.com/Sulstice/molpdf
    https://github.com/Sulstice/cocktail-shaker
    https://github.com/Sulstice/Bunny
    https://github.com/Sulstice/Uptime-Cheminformatics

    And there is a variety of flavours you can use for stuff.

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    Is your intention to get preview for markdown specific to Indie hackers or in general ? I wrote a Markdown cheatsheet in simple table form along with example preview. Try this

    https://tipseason.com/markdown-basics-cheat-sheet-one-page/

    I use this for everyday posts.

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      This is pretty neat.
      It would be great if someone really dumbed down the how to ad an image to the body of a text. I figured out one way yesterday and posted about it. However, as I understand it, there are multiple ways of doing this.

      The thing that I was confused about was - is it necessary to have the image on the internet somewhere - no matter what way we are using, or can you somehow pull up a local file?

      I figured out a way using imgur: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-add-an-image-into-the-body-of-an-indie-hackers-post-82e81c1def

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    next thing you know, someone's trying to run some js or hack the db

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