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leaf Makes Markdown Actually Readable Inside the Terminal
A developer from Madagascar built a terminal-based Markdown viewer after AI coding tools kept flooding his command line with content he had no comfortable way to read.
Amilia Bon
Jun 2, 2026<br>2 min read<br>199 views
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"I wanted a fast and comfortable way to read that content without leaving the command line."
Rivo Link works with AI coding tools every day. Claude Code, Codex, and similar tools all run in the terminal and regularly produce large amounts of Markdown output - documentation, summaries, generated code explanations. The problem is that raw Markdown in a terminal is not easy to read. It is cluttered with syntax, hard to scan, and interrupts the flow of working in the command line.
Rather than switching to a browser or a separate editor just to read a file, Rivo built leaf - a terminal-based Markdown viewer that renders content cleanly without leaving the command line environment.
Built for the Developer Workflow
leaf is designed for developers and terminal users who work daily with documentation, AI-generated content, notes, and README files. The goal is not to replace more fully-featured Markdown editors but to solve a specific friction point: the moment when you need to quickly read a Markdown file and everything about your workflow keeps you in the terminal.
Rivo is a software developer from Madagascar with a focus on open-source developer tools. Over the month since launch, development has been shaped by community feedback - adding features, fixing bugs, and bringing in contributors. The HN update he posted after the first month walked through what changed and why, a level of transparency about the build process that drew attention from the developer community following along.
leaf is open source and available now on GitHub.
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AI coding workflow tools<br>CLI markdown tool<br>leaf<br>markdown renderer for developers<br>open source developer tools<br>Rivo Hajaniaina<br>Rivo Link<br>terminal markdown viewer
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Amilia Bon is an editor and BD at StartupFortune, where she finds and covers independent founders building products worth knowing about. She focuses on early-stage launches, indie makers, and the kind of software that solves a specific problem quietly and well. She also runs StartupFortune's X account at x.com/Startup_Fortune.
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