Built a Tiny Site That Formats Markdown for Substack
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Most important feature for me is converting from ASCII to "fancy" quotes and apostrophes, which Substack inserts automatically in its editor. Some more advanced features are probably broken, because Substack's editor is a bit wonky, but the basic stuff all works. Give it a try!
And here's the source: https://github.com/simpolism/md-to-substack