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I work on Retype. We're loving using Obsidian to edit our .md files but also need a low-effort solution for publishing. Some of the projects we're working on are generating heaps o…

I’m the author of Retype. I wrote this guide as a practical walkthrough for self-hosting an Obsidian vault. I’d really appreciate your feedback or ideas on what could be improved.

If you need an option to publish your notes online, check out Retype ( https://retype.com ). You can use Obsidian or GitBook or any Markdown files as your GUI editor and generate a…

My understanding is that the $64.25M in "bidding" wasn’t real, as it was likely done with chandelier bids. Essentially fake phantom bids placed by the auctioneer to simulate intere…

I met plenty of Americans in both Iran and North Korea. American tourists often receive extra interest and admiration from the locals, who express a genuine warmth and fascination …

> was there anything fascinating about North Korea that you couldn't have gotten from South Korea yes, a different perspective. EDIT/ADD: Witness one of the world’s most secretive …

I've been to both and can report a positive experience. The DPRK trip was fascinating. The thing I remember most about Iran is how friendly everyone was to us.

How about Retype? https://retype.com

GitBook is a static site generator, essentially. Just wrapped in an online UI.

MDX is interesting and powerful, although creates all kinds of portability issues and is a terribly leaky abstraction of what should be a simple content syntax. Very much (IMHO) ag…

> or may disappear entirely is due to the lock-in and vanishing of previous tools I've used. Another important point. Retype is distributed via NPM and NuGet (.NET) package manager…

> but it represents some amount of lock-in (though, less than typical since the everything is mostly plain markdown) This is an important point. Retype has been developed with the …

While gitbook does wrap the branching/merging process in a UI that is digestible by non-developers, Retype is far more powerful because you actually use GitHub (or GitLab). You hav…

BookStack looks interesting, but certainly one massive advantage Retype has is just installation. I can have Retype installed, my website built, and running in a browser in a 10 se…

Ya, I've thought about open-sourcing the project many times, but there doesn't seem to be much upside.

Retype builds directly off Markdown files, which you can store anywhere, including GitHub. The retype.com website is built directly from a GitHub repo, see https://github.com/retyp…

Replaced the Pro link in the header with Pricing and added Retype Pro link in the left sidebar main nav. Hope this helps.

I added a link in the footer to the License. Certainly was not my intention in any way hide the license. Hope this helps. > The page limits, while high, are somewhat unsettling. Ca…

Thanks for the excellent feedback. We'll definitely add something to the home page which makes the Pro option more visible.

Free for projects with up to 100 content pages. Pro pricing will be available for 5-10x lower than GitBook. Self hosting of the generated website, which isn't possible with GitBook…