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Nice project. The space is crowded with many similar products. I couldn't get any primary differentiators between it and similar products already mentioned in this thread

I prefer self-hosted or internally managed product only! However, what's really hard to find is a solution that integrates with technical & business documentation stacks. If anyone knows any good products please please please share...

I feel stuck using a frustrating product like Confluence and tried a few open source alternatives but couldn't get conviction to switch (bad vs worse). We've been trying 'swimm.io' but everybody has to go out of their way to incorporate it into their workflow, sooo nobody really using it! It doesn't help that most of us use vim/neovim and not IDEs ... majority of engineers don't really like the documentation part of their work and most tools make it worse!

hey! ceo & co-founder here, some key differentiators. It definitely is a busy space, but we feel like there's some key differentiators:

- modern design - deeply integrated rest api client - free hosting with an apidocumentation.com subdomain - offline search with fuse.js - and more!

We also have a full api docs platform, where you can: - have full customization so you get on brand docs - subdomain & custom domain hosting

We put a lot of time to make these products integrated, cause what we see right now with current solutions is deep fragmentation.

I agree on most tools making it worse, long term we aim to make this better with a git sync feature and docstring parsing! :) -

hello! Cofounder of mintlify.com here.

> It doesn't help that most of us use vim/neovim and not IDEs ... majority of engineers don't really like the documentation part of their work and most tools make it worse!

Mintlify's editing experience is powered by mdx files that live alongside your code which makes it super easy for developers to edit docs if that is of interest to you.

> The space is crowded with many similar products.

Totally agree. This thread is proof that there is a lot of innovation happening here and a lot of different angles & approaches. It's exciting!

hey @bamazizi, I think you are looking for archbee.com

we are cross the technical documentation spectrum solution, doing anything from end-user/dev API/guides to internal management of technical knowledge.

let me know if you'd like a demo, I'm the founder.

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