Mintlify is building a next-gen platform for writing software docs

Software documentation — the resources that explain how software works and how to use it — has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plaintext, docs today are more interactive and user-friendly than they used to be.

But crafting them is still a time sink. Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee, both devs and entrepreneurs, say that they’ve personally struggled with this.

“In the 2010s, companies like Stripe, HashiCorp, Twilio and a bunch others raised the bar on developer content,” Wang said. “They proved that a truly great developer experience for their content is not just a commodity, but a competitive advantage. Since then, every company has been trying to catch up, but it’s actually quite difficult.”

Inspired to try simplifying the workflows to publish docs (mainly to make their own lives easier), Wang and Lee created Mintlify, a collection of documentation-authoring tools, including tools that can auto-generate docs from codebases.

“In the 2020s, the bar for documentation is rising once again,” Wang said. “This time, it’s not just with the UI, but the way developers and editors are fundamentally interacting with the content because of AI.”


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