Here are some of the common reasons why companies contact us about API documentation:
- You’ve been providing APIs to your largest customers, together with a lot of onboarding and technical support. You want to have more (smaller-sized) companies use the APIs, but you’re worried about the strain that will place on your Support team.
- You’re releasing a new version of your API. The current documentation needs updating, but you just don’t have the time (or the technical communication skills) to do it.
- You’ve released your API, but its poor documentation means not enough developers are using it, you’re getting too many Support calls, or it’s seen as worse than your competition’s products.
- Your product offerings and APIs are going to get a lot more complex. You know you’ll need great content to explain what the APIs do, how to get started, and how to use them effectively.
- You’re launching your first API, and you know you’ll need to provide a great developer onboarding experience for you to succeed.
- Your developer portal/developer experience is a mess. There’s a lot of content, but it’s spread over explanations on Jira, readme files, files in a shared folder on Google Drive, PDFs originally developed for a single customer, web pages, wikis, video walkthroughs etc.
- Your developers are too close to the APIs and products to explain it fully in a way that a new user would understand.
- You’re getting battered by the competition, and one of the main reasons for this is that their developer documentation is so much better than yours.
Are there any other Use Cases?
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