Skill

Developer Onboarding & Documentation

For a developer product, the docs and the first hour with the product do much of the marketing. This skill covers designing the getting-started experience, structuring API documentation, cutting the time to a first successful call, measuring onboarding, and building a docs team. It draws on practitioners from ReadMe, Netlify, Stripe and others.

Draws from
Greg Koberger, Joyce Lin, Brian Douglas, Peggy Rayzis, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Samuel Hulick, Amber Feng, Swyx, Megan Sullivan, Nick Cawthon
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Developer Onboarding & Documentation
Built from 4 library pieces

Use it when you're

  • Designing a developer's first hour with the product
  • Writing or restructuring API documentation
  • Shortening the time to a first successful call
  • Deciding which docs to write first
  • Measuring whether onboarding works
  • Building and staffing a docs or DX team

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Use the Developer Onboarding & Documentation skill to cut the time it takes a new developer to make their first API call.
Use the Developer Onboarding & Documentation skill to decide which docs to write first for our public beta.

The talks and articles behind it

This skill was built from these pieces in the Heavybit Library. All of them are free to read or watch if you want the source material yourself.

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