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Jekyll and Hyde are both awesome. I played around with Pelican a while ago, and it seemed solid.

Droptype wasn't much more than that. It used Dropbox's then-new revised API to look at Dropbox/Apps/Droptype and then displayed any Markdown files as a list. If you added a README file, it would render the contents of that. It was a quick and dirty Django app.

There wasn't any control over the design or any web-based editing capabilities. Others are doing interesting stuff in that space, most notably http://scriptogr.am/ which is probably a lot like where Marquee would have ended up if we continued to go keep going down that route. They're doing a very nice job with it though.

That said, we're looking at Dropbox/GitHub integration as more of a feature than a product. We're approaching the problem space from a somewhat different direction; the focus on our authoring environment is the first step to getting there.

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