"Let me be blunt.

If your startup offers APIs and you don’t have a portal, you’re lighting developer acquisition money on fire. 💵 🧯🚒

Here’s what a good portal actually does:

Shortens time-to-value: faster POCs, faster adoption.

Reduces support tickets: devs can find what they need.

Builds trust: your API feels stable, documented, and ready.

Increases conversion: when docs show how easy it is to integrate, not just tell.

Still sending PDF onboarding packets to partners?

C’mon, boo. 🥲"

https://www.quetzalliwrites.com/newsletters/developer-portals-dev-friendly-or-dev-frustrating

#DevPortals #DeveloperPortals #APIs #API #APIDocumentation #TechnicalWriter #TechnicalCommunication

#DX #DeveloperPortals #APIs #APIDocumentation #InformationArchitecture #TechnicalWriting: "An out-of-the-box developer portal can speed up your go-to-market. But after a quick launch, a developer portal that cannot be customized can become a roadblock to the long-term success of your API program. As the API portfolio grows and matures, your strategy will probably change and require more specific business experiences. In this case, a preset solution may no longer suit all the desired goals, and retooling might become necessary.

The Codat Docs team went through such a journey: they wanted to have more flexibility and control over their docs, and they built their own custom solution. Now, their documentation site is more resilient. With the help of the new landscape, large-scale changes can be managed on over three hundred pages of content without interrupting the existing user experience.

To mention another example, the Monite API Developer Portal uses a robust content management system that is exclusively tailored for developer documentation. The comprehensive resource was designed to provide an end-to-end self-service experience to developers.

The ability to extend and customize your developer portal plays a crucial role in executing on the API business strategy."

https://pronovix.com/articles/developer-experience-best-practices-api-docs-2023

#APis #Documentation #BusinessModels #DeveloperPortals: "In the API economy, businesses can expose their data and services through APIs, allowing third-party developers to build new applications and services on top of them. This creates new business opportunities and drives innovation, as developers can use APIs to access data and functionality that was previously unavailable.

For example, a company that has built a database of customer information could expose this data through an API, allowing other companies to build new applications that use this data to provide value to their customers. In this way, the API economy allows businesses to leverage their existing assets and create new revenue streams.

Over time, at Blobr, we have developed a framework to better evaluate the kind of APIs we are dealing with. The framework includes data, service, and processing. Here is an overview of the top 100 companies included in our study."

https://www.blobr.io/report-state-of-api-developer-portals/introduction