Documentation Tools Recommendations

Users recommend, compare, and discuss various tools and platforms for creating, hosting, and maintaining documentation for open-source projects, APIs, and codebases.

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tomgs Jan 9, 2021 View on HN

Just contemplating doc solutions for the open source repo I maintain (5K+ stars). Would be happy to use https://documentation.page/. Ping me at my email / twitter (details in my profile).

jayfk May 14, 2020 View on HN

A modern documentation viewer: https://dok.dev/

DataOverload Sep 5, 2024 View on HN

Awesome project - how does this compare to other API docs tools out there?

hadas-a Feb 15, 2024 View on HN

Documentation sucks. Try Swimm.io - keeps your docs connected to your code (so it automatically update as code change) and also lives in the ide

mooreds May 15, 2023 View on HN

I'm really interested in a tool that can ingest documentation (I have it in markdown and asciidoc) and help me write new documentation. Any suggestions?

gkoberger Mar 16, 2020 View on HN

Hey! I'm the founder of ReadMe, and we'd love to have you :) We can help with the technical docs and let you focus on the API itself

euroderf Jun 25, 2024 View on HN

Have you tried it for writing documentation ?

Fawlty Jun 25, 2021 View on HN

I've seen people using archbee.io for similar use case. Archbee is a lightweight docs tool for developers with various integrations so should check your boxes (full disclosure - I'm an investor there :)

wdb Feb 8, 2022 View on HN

I wish there was an open-source solution something like this or similar to Readme.com but better than Redocly

sarcasmatwork May 10, 2020 View on HN

Would something like https://readthedocs.org work?