I am not a technical person. I’ve gotten a lot more so thanks to spending my days surrounded by highly technical people at ReadMe, but my lack-of-technical expertise was actually one of the reasons I was drawn…
APIs come in all shapes and sizes and while ReadMe is a great documentation solution for whatever kind of API you have, we’ve created this page to help you get the most out of the…
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To help you jumpstart your ReadMe project, we’ve put together some best practices for building and maintaining a top-notch developer hub. While these are suggestions based on our team’s experience building and using ReadMe, your…
After setting up Developer Dashboard, you'll notice that there's a new My Developers page in your dashboard. This area gives your team in-depth developer profiles and API usage analytics. Here, your team can dig into…
If you told developers back in 2005 that they could make money off of an API, they'd laugh at you. The notion that you can build just a layer of software — just one functionality…
User interface and experience (UI/UX) are a crucial part of professional, in-depth API documentation. Think of your documentation as the UI/UX of your API — badly-designed or difficult to use documentation can do a lot…
In the early 1800s, the American railroad was a free-for-all. Every city had its own time calculation, which meant that there were over 300 different time zones across the country. This made train schedules incredibly…
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…