Launch HN: Mintlify (YC W22) – Maintainable documentation for software teams

Hi HN, we’re Hahnbee and Han from Mintlify ( https://www.mintlify.com/ ). Mintlify lets software teams easily track and manage documentation. We’re open source and our Github is at https://github.com/mintlify/mintlify . We worked at software companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech, and they all had bad documentation, if it even existed at all. We decided to work on this problem and created a VS Code extension called Doc Writer which generated in-line documentation for codebases using Codex from OpenAI. Doc Writer helped people document their code more frequently and still continues to, but there were limitations. We were highly reliant on OpenAI, people didn’t want their proprietary code to be sent into the cloud, and the AI was satisfactory 80% of the time. But after digging deeper into the documentation problem space, we realized that Doc Writer only solved a small part of it. We quickly learned that (1) the debate about writing do