Show HN: Markdrop — drag and drop Markdown previews

It seems like a Quicklook generator for Markdown would be a more convenient solution in this case, since the workflow already involves going into the Finder and selecting the files... There has to be something out there for Github-flavored Markdown, right?

Very nice. I tend to go to web dingus and copy and paste my markdown in, so this is much handier.

Some comments:

* It doesn't seem to be working on Safari (v. 5.1, OS X Lion) for me. When I drop the file in, the blue bar stays properly, but the content area below that goes blank.

* The option to upload via a standard file input would be nice as well. I like that the primary usage is dropping, but sometimes I run my windows in full screen and it'd be nice to not have to exit out of that, open Finder, find the folder, and the drag.

* Maybe indicate that this is indeed the page on which you are supposed to drag. At first, I was unsure about that, but decided to go for it anyway. You could give a visual indication with a dotted box suggesting they drop there (but letting them drop anywhere, if they decide).

* Under instructions, I was left hanging. I get that you're showing that it's only two steps, but you showed a picture of it dropping onto the page and the instructions ended there. A "You're done!" with a small clipping of what the page with the rendered markup looks like might be nice.

Your site is hard to use, because it doesn't look like a place where you should be dropping files/text. It looks like a normal website. Ditch the instructions, and instead make the site look like a "pad" where you can drag things. If it looks inviting to drag files into a zone on the site then people will understand that they can do it.

Took me a bit to realise where to drag to as well but I thought it was pretty cool when it worked.

I was going to say it didn't parse ``` properly but then realised that's part of Github-flavoured Markdown. Nice work! :)

How does this work? I tried drag and dropping my markdown file to the page and instead I got prompted to save the file locally.

Using Ubuntu & Chrome.