Mintlify, which automates software documentation tasks announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The startup developing software's CEO Han Wang said that the proceeds will go to product development and double their staff. Currently, Mintlify is a three-person team. 

The New York-based software company was founded in 2021 by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee. Both are software engineers and their profession drove them to build Mintlify. 

Both Wang and Lee's experiences in software development involved working with documentation that wasn't always high quality or complete. 

"We've worked as software engineers at companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech and found that they all suffer from bad documentation if it even existed at all," Wang said. 

He also added that documentation is crucial to engineers and those that are working on new codebases. 

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The Solution to Documentation Challenges

With that, Mintlify is established to address documentation challenges with auto-generating documentation. The software reads code and creates docs to explain it using technologies, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and web scraping. 

This only shows that generating documentation from code is possible with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

However, Mintlify isn't the first one to do this. In fact, the software company already has a few competitors that are taking similar approaches. 

Still, Wang assures that their software delivers higher-quality results and they don'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 said. 

Aside from document generation, the software also scans for stale documentation and detects how users engage with the documentation. These help improve its readability. The software that will not store code and ensures all user data at rest and in transit are encrypted. 

The platform is free for developers and can be integrated with existing systems. 

Growing and Thriving

Since its launch in January, Mintlify continues to grow with 6,000 active accounts. With this, they are looking to offering a premium that is aimed at enterprise customers. 

It has also received good feedback from developers and people who have texted the software. For many, it saves a lot of time and keystrokes from writing docstrings from scratch and it would be useful for reading and understanding undocumented code by ghosts. 

They also noted that the global pandemic's impact on the work environment has even made it more important to have high-quality documentation for more efficient product development. And this is exactly what Mintlify is doing as they expand into workflow automation that addresses documentation challenges. 

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Written by April Fowell