Realmac Software has been schooling developers on how to make great apps since 2002. So when they brought Typed to OS X back in December, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. Two months on, I’m convinced it’s the best Markdown editor you can get on the Mac, so I spoke with Realmac founder Dan Counsell to find out how he and his team built it.
“Products always turn out better when you build them for your own needs,” Counsell told Cult of Mac. “I think that’s why we’re different to a lot of companies out there; we don’t go looking for opportunities, we build the products we want to use.”
This is why Typed isn’t just a great app, but also a great experience. Counsell says that experience is purely a byproduct of great focus and only building software that you really care about.
When Realmac set out to build Typed, it wasn’t because of a lack of Markdown editors. In fact, there are tons of them for Mac, such as Marked, iA Writer, and Byword. But Counsell and his team felt they could do a better job, and so they started building a product that would meet their needs and eliminate the flaws they’d encountered with other apps.
“We knew by building our own we could make it just right — fix the things we found missing or annoying in other editors,” Counsell said. “We figured if we liked it, then other people would like it, too.”
