
Your README Is Already a Website
Announcing readme-to-index — My First GitHub Marketplace Release 🎉 Today I published my first GitHub Action to the Marketplace . It’s called readme-to-index , and it does something very simple: It turns your README.md into a clean, styled index.html . That’s it. No Jekyll. No Ruby. No themes. No _config.yml . No implicit behaviour. Just Markdown → HTML → Done. Why I Built It I have a lot of small projects. Many of them already have good READMEs. In fact, for most of them, the README is the documentation. So the obvious question is: Why create a separate site when the README already exists? GitHub Pages + Jekyll is great. But for small libraries and utilities, it can feel like overkill. I wanted something: Minimal Deterministic Easy to drop into any workflow Friendly to CI pipelines With zero hidden conventions So I built a GitHub Action that does exactly one thing: README.md → index.html Styled using Simple.css (by default, but you can use any stylesheet you like). What It Does Convert
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