Mintlify is a world-class documentation platform that lets users gain documentation codes as they scale with a priority in quality. The platform promises to connect with your existing system in less than three minutes. Many other features also come with your subscription: easy integration, adaptable and customizable workflows, incorrect documentation code detection, team and platform syncing, and more.
Mintlify is planning to tap into AI to generate code documentation automatically. Is this the next-level documentation platform that developers have been waiting for?
Coders and developers might be on the lookout for this promising software that automates documentation tasks from code. Mintlify has raised over $2.8 million in seed funding. Bain Capital Ventures leads this seed round of funding with the collaboration of Quinn Slack and TwentyTwo Ventures.
Mintlify CEO Han Wang claims that this funding will be invested in the company’s product development and workforce augmentation by the end of the year. The company aims to multiply Mintlify’s three-person team by two folds by the end of the year.
Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee founded Mintlify in 2021 in Ithaca, New York. These software engineers have also founded several software programs in the previous years. Han Wang co-founded a startup that created a cloud-based monitoring program for cows called Foodful. He also founded Pe*ple, which is an online customer community channel. Tribe, later on, acquired Foodful in early 2021.
On the other hand, Lee also co-founded Pe*ple before he jumped on Duolingo as the company’s engineer.
How it started
The geniuses behind Mintlify wanted to give users high-quality and efficient documentation in software development. The idea arose after having experienced incomplete or low-quality documentation in software development.
A GitHub survey showed that 93 percent of developers have also experienced the same thing. It claims that outdated or incomplete documentation has become a significant problem for most developers.
Mintlify’s mission
Mintlify’s mission is to use technology by integrating natural language processing and web scraping to create documentation to explain it and read codes. Overall, the company aims to cater to users and developers who struggle with documentation by providing auto-generated documentation.
Although Wang didn’t disclose all information about Mintlify’s technical features, he claims that automating documentation from code might be a possible feature that users will enjoy from the platform. The company aims to compete against other platforms offering the same approach, such as Documatic, an AI-powered platform that automatically produces explanations and changes logs from code.
Other features of Mintlify will include scans for stale documentation, integration with existing systems, detection of user engagement with the documentation in readability enhancement, and more.
Better than its competitors
Wang also claims that Mintlify will be better than its competitors by providing high-quality results.
Wang said, “Mintlify’s mission is to solve documentation rot by developing continuous documentation into a standard practice for software teams. [W]hen engineering managers are actively seeking solutions for better documentation practices … that’s when we step in.”
Wang also added that Mintlify’s free plan users have also grown by numbers. He claims it’s been increasing by 20 percent weekly since launching in January. And now that the number of active accounts is around 6,000, Mintlify is now banking on offering premium accounts to enterprise users.
