Product Weekend Jan 2026 - MD2Page
I’ve had this product idea in my mind for quite a while. With the growth of AI agents recently, Markdown content seems to be getting more popular again. It almost feels like Markdown is slowly becoming the common exchange format between AI agents. Because of that, the idea came up — what if you could simply paste Markdown content and have it generate a landing page automatically?
I used this idea to kickstart my Product Weekend 2026 back in January. After doing Product Weekend for nearly three years, this is actually the first time I started it in January. Most of the time I only begin around March, after the Lunar New Year break, which for many of us feels like the “official” start of work for the year. But this time I decided to just start earlier and see where it goes.
The idea itself is quite simple. You paste Markdown content, and the system generates a landing page from it. As usual, I picked OpenAI as the engine since I’m already quite comfortable with their API. With some help from AI for brainstorming and coding, I built the MD2Page API first before creating the landing page that consumes the API. I prefer building things this way because once the core logic is available as an API, it becomes easier for me to reuse the same functionality in other products later on.
So far the landing pages generated by OpenAI look decent, but they are still not very fancy. The layout works, but it could definitely look better. My next step might be trying Claude instead of OpenAI to see if it can produce nicer layouts and designs. I’m still figuring it out, but that’s the plan for now.
We’ll see how it goes.
