INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Software APIs help different tools communicate with one another, let developers access essential services without having to code it
themselves and are critical components for driving a platform-driven strategy
Yet they require solid documentation to help make the best use of them
ReadMe, a startup that helps companies customize their API documentation, announced a $9 million Series A today led by Accel with help from
Today, it reports 3,000 paying customers and that it has been profitable for the last several years, an unusual position for a startup
In spite of this success, co-founder and CEO Gregory Koberger said as the company has taken on larger customers, they have more
sophisticated requirements, and that prompted them to take this round of funding.In addition, it has expanded the platform to use a
going to still build the company traditionally by hiring more engineers, more support people, more designers, the obvious stuff, but the
main impetus for doing this was that we started working with bigger companies with more secure data
use of the API logs has opened up all kinds of possibilities for the company, as the data provides a valuable window into how people use the
When people are having problems with an API, they can debug it themselves because they can actually see the problems, the support team can
difference between making and breaking an API
ReadMe is as much a strategy as it is a service for businesses
Providing clean, interactive, data-driven API documentation to make developers love working with you can be the difference between 100
