alt Hacker NewsIt's not a business's job to make their documentation accessible to their potential and current customers?
I would ask if you've started a real business but it's clear you haven't. It is 100% on a developer tool startup to provide documentation that is easily accessible. If they don't, customers will struggle to get value. If you think this isn't true, then you are ignoring the gigantic market of companies purchasing documentation products (look at Mintlify's customer base for reference)
There is no way I'm asking my customers to scrape my docs and build their own MCP server and AI assistant just to access it easily.
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phyrog • yesterday at 11:20 PM
Not everything is a business, you know? As far as I know tangled is not one.
It's barely a value-add when agents can scrape the docs themselves and browsers have the reading tools built in.
>I would ask if you've started a real business but it's clear you haven't.
I wouldn't speak so authoritatively about this stuff if I didn't know anything about running a business. My lemonade stand was extremely successful in the geographic area it was marketed in (~10 blocks around my house). I was planning on going public but unexpected regulatory issues (end of 4th grade summer break) forced me to reevaluate. Though these new agentic lemon beverage developments seem like they might draw me back into it...