I see someone else mentioned this a week or two ago as well, but I would be willing to pay $100 for a license if it was hard launched.
I’ve used a number of other markdown editors (Obsidian.md, Craft Docs, Emacs’s Org-Mode) and all are cludgy in comparison to Panda.
Please continue to develop it.
It will be developed and released as Bear 2. 
Since the beta for macOS is currently underway and the iOS beta will happen shortly after, I’d say we’ll see it in 2023.
#CantWait
It may be that panda will be continued as file-based standalone editor parallel to bear 2
I can confirm it’s our intention to ship Panda as a standalone app but not before Bear 2.0