Today we’ve got a special guest on the blog — Ceci Stallsmith! If you were at API Mixtape 2023, you got to see her in action as a speaker. If you missed her talk, you’re in luck, because today’s post is covering the same topic: how to create developer marketing that doesn’t suck.  Take it away, Ceci:  This post explores specific ways to make your developer marketing notably not bad — maybe even good! Read on to learn about what to do (and what to avoid) to hit the mark with your developer audience.  Things to avoid: the bad  Bad 1: Tone-deaf content ? Join the movement, cr ..read more

Happy Groundhog Day! While you’re waiting to find out if we have six more weeks of winter, why don’t you take a look at our news and updates from January? We’ve got new features, improvements, and even some events on the horizon. Read on to see what our team got up to last month, find out how to make the most of those updates, and where to catch us live (virtually and in person):  More Nested Levels ? Looking for more flexibility and options in how you structure your Guides and API Reference? We’ve got good news for you: we’ve introduced an additional level of nesting! That makes for a ..read more

Ever tried to put together a complex piece of furniture without the instructions? We all know that’s typically a recipe for disaster. But that’s exactly what some companies expect developers to do, when they have API documentation that’s hard to find, poorly maintained, or difficult to understand…or worse yet, don’t have any API documentation at all ? As Ruben Vermeersch said, “Your APIs are only as good as the documentation that comes with them. Invest time in getting docs right.” If you want developers to successfully use your API and enjoy the experience of using it (and you do, or the API ..read more

At ReadMe, we think a lot about creating a great experience for the developers that are building with our customers’ APIs. But we care a lot about the folks responsible for those APIs, too! Behind the scenes of every developer hub, there’s a team of engineers, product managers, and technical writers who make the magic happen ✨ Today, we're talking to Justin Jenkins from DriveWealth, who provides APIs that power investing for 100+ fintechs, brokers, and advisors across the world. Can you share a little bit about how you wound up in your current job and what your career trajectory has been like ..read more

Welcome to the first ReadMe in Review of 2024! We know how busy it is during the holidays, so we’ve collected all of our news and updates from last month in one spot for easier perusal.  Of course, our biggest update from December was the Reusable Content release. If you want to read more about what’s included in that, you can head here. Ready to set it up? Our docs can help you get started.  Other than that, let’s see what the team got up to last month:  Owlbot AI ? You can now customize how Owlbot responds to questions, including tweaking the tone, adjusting the length of re ..read more

The year is almost over, but before we officially say goodbye to 2023 and hello to 2024, we have one more holiday treat: we’re launching the new Reusable Content feature today! We know this is something many users are excited to see, so we’ll cut right to the chase. Introducing Reusable Content The concept behind Reusable Content is fairly self-explanatory: it allows Project Admins to create blocks of content that can be used across multiple pages and locations. When the Reusable Content block is edited, the content automatically updates everywhere that block has been used. Not only is this a ..read more

Our team has been hard at work improving the ReadMe experience, and with so many updates, it can be hard to keep track of all of them. We've got you covered, though, with ReadMe in Review, here to summarize all of the changes and news from last month in one spot.  Let’s see what Owlbert’s gift bag has in store for you this month: Owlbot AI ? If you’re using Owlbot AI, you can now export the questions your customers asked as a CSV, and you can now also use filters to narrow down the data set Indexing improvements, including hourly re-indexes (as opposed to every other hour) and an improv ..read more

When considering what makes a great developer experience, we usually break it down into the three stages of your developer lifecycle: Evaluation & onboarding ? Educating users about what’s possible and helping them make their first API call as quickly as possible Engagement & support ❤️ Giving users the tools to build efficiently and helping them debug issues when they run into roadblocks Retention & growth ? Driving adoption of new API features, increasing usage over time, and ensuring a smooth transition for users to new API versions Supporting this full developer lifecycle ..read more

It takes a lot of dedication to create and maintain excellent documentation — but if your developers can’t find the information they need when they need it, that effort was all for naught. And that discoverability problem only increases as you add more content to your developer hubs. To help you solve that problem for you and your developers, we created Owlbot AI: a new way to enhance your developer experience across your documentation. Owlbot AI is a chatbot that lives inside your hub’s search, so developers can ask Owlbot their questions and get an instant response. It’s your docs, made bet ..read more

ReadMe already makes it easy to create great developer hubs for public and partner APIs. But we know that companies often have hundreds (if not thousands!) of internal APIs to track, and that tracking and documenting that many APIs can be something of a logistical nightmare ? That’s why we’ve created ReadMe Micro. With it, our goal was to create an elegant solution for engineering teams looking for a better way to organize and maintain their internal APIs and microservices. Think of Micro as a developer hub for your engineering team: one centralized place to discover, organize, and share all ..read more