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Ask HN: Would you pay for good documentations? How much?
I deal a lot with APIs, it seems to me that the bigger the company it is the less they care about API docs. Would you pay for good, well written, updated docs? How much?
- ezekg 9y agoI believe https://readme.io https://readme.io is doing quite well, so I would venture to say, yes, people would pay over $59/mo for it. Is that what you mean? Or do you mean you would rewrite documentation for popular APIs so that they don’t suck?
- gkoberger 9y ago(Founder of ReadMe here!) Yup! Companies definitely invest time and money into docs, especially at big companies. And smaller, cooler companies like Stripe and Twilio are showing them how important it is. To answer the original question, technical writing contractors are very common! To get started, I'd highly recommend getting involved with Write The Docs. They have two big conferences each year, a Slack channel, and almost every city has a meetup: http://www.writethedocs.org/ http://www.writethedocs.org/