2022年5月30日

Mintlify,启动软件开发自动化软件文档的任务,今天宣布它筹集了280万美元的种子轮由贝恩资本(Bain Capital)投资TwentyTwo企业的参与和奎因松弛,Sourcegraph的联合创始人。首席执行官汉旺说,收益将对产品开发和加倍Mintlify核心的三人团队在今年年底。在2021年联合创立的伊萨卡岛,纽约Mintlify汉旺和Hahnbee李——软件工程师的贸易。王以前co-launched Foodful,一个创业公司,开发了一个基于云的牛、监控系统和Pe•请耐心,一个在线客户社区平台,在2021年初被部落收购。李是一个联合创始人在Pe•请耐心短暂加入Duolingo作为一个工程师。王说的想法Mintlify来自他和李的经验在软件开发中,涉及处理文档并不总是完整的或最高的质量。观察同意GitHub 2017年开展的一项调查,发现93%的开发人员考虑不完整或过时的文档是一个普遍的问题。“我们做软件工程师在各个阶段的公司从创业到大型科技股,发现他们都遭受坏的文档,如果它存在,”王在电子邮件采访中告诉TechCrunch。“文档是初级工程师的生命线和那些跳入新的代码库。它帮助高级开发者从别人解释他们的代码来节省时间。 For public-facing and open-source products, documentation has a direct impact on user adoption.” Image Credits: Mintlify Mintlify aims to address the challenges around documentation with automation, specifically auto-generating documentation. The company’s platform reads code and creates docs to explain it, leveraging technologies including natural language processing and web scraping. Wang declined to reveal more about Mintlify’s technical underpinnings, but generating documentation from code is well within the realm of possibility with today’s AI techniques. That’s evidenced by the fact that Mintlify has several competitors taking similar approaches, including Documatic, whose AI system automatically generates changelogs and explanations from code in addition to documentation. Wang asserts that Mintlify provides “significantly” higher-quality results than its rivals, and — unlike some — doesn’t force developers to host documentation on a cloud service. “Mintlify’s mission is to solve documentation rot by developing continuous documentation into a standard practice for software teams,” Wang added. “[W]hen engineering managers are actively seeking solutions for better documentation practices, … that’s when we step in.” Beyond generating documentation, Mintlify routinely scans for “stale” documentation and detects how users engage with the documentation to improve its readability. (Wang emphasized that the platform doesn’t store code and encrypts all user data at rest and in transit.) Mintlify, which is free for individual developers, also integrates with existing systems including Slack, Dropbox, and GitHub for automating task management and development workflows. According to Wang, adoption of Mintlify’s free plan has been growing 20% every week since its January launch. With the user base now eclipsing 6,000 active accounts, the company plans to shift its focus to a premium offering oriented toward enterprise customers. “The pandemic standardized a decentralized and asynchronous work environment. This made high-quality documentation critical to achieving efficient communication, onboarding, and product development,” Wang said. “Our expansion into workflow automations is addressing the challenge by targeting the engineering managers with our existing fanbase serving as champions.”