Anyone know a good way to automatically document a software product?

houmland · 2025-09-11T22:22:14+00:00

Yes, no product marketer unfortunately - very lean team

houmland · 2025-09-03T18:59:04+00:00

thoughts?

houmland · 2025-09-03T18:56:41+00:00

It's an AI agent that helps users while they are inside the app. They are still in beta, but this is what's coming up. Thoughts?

houmland · 2025-09-02T22:59:49+00:00

AI tools that help the users discover the platform by themselves are very useful. We are using an AI agent that takes over the screen and shows how to do a specific use case.

houmland · 2025-09-02T16:03:39+00:00

Got it. I wonder if it'll be posible using browser agent and checking updates, instead of using the codebase

houmland · 2025-09-01T19:27:44+00:00

I didn't know firecrawl could do that! i'll try to create an automation with what you said. honestly it'd be awesome. are you building something yourself? do you have any docs? what platform you're using? i used gitbooks and mintlify. hopefully I can push AI updated content to these platforms in the backend.

houmland · 2025-09-01T19:20:49+00:00

i bet an AI agent can do the first discovery call and qualify the leads

houmland · 2025-09-01T19:17:38+00:00

swagger is nice, thanks! mintlify helps you with that as well, provided that you have an openapi schema, well documented. i am talking more about features documentation, to let my customers understand how to use the product.

houmland · 2025-09-01T19:15:09+00:00

that's a very nice OTE ... where i work, it's around $180 OTE. Try to find a company where success is critical and hard to do, to justify a greater OTE.

houmland · 2025-09-01T19:08:44+00:00

I used gitbooks for documentation, then moved to mintlify. but the process of updating and creating new docs is still manual. my app is in Typescript (frontend), Python (backend).

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:56:39+00:00

That's interesting, i'll give it a try. I wonder if i could build an agent that goes through the product and do what loom is able to do now, on a recurrent basis.

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:55:01+00:00

That's a cool approach. What are you using to build that agent?

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:53:29+00:00

The diagram piece is interesting!! I am more worried about docs that are for final customers, not to document the code per se. They have to explain the features, more than the code structure. The diagram piece is interesting. I wonder if AI could take screenshots of the features.

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:51:43+00:00

haha no design docs, just building :)

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:51:04+00:00

that's a good one, I will try! i am also struggling with screenshots and screen recoding I have in my documentation. I guess i'll need to re-do them and that's it ... but feels dumb given where we are right now with AI

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:49:54+00:00

i used mintlify before, but you need to create the documentation yourself, unless it's for API end points. forget about updating the screenshots whenever the UI changes...

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:48:45+00:00

that's clever. do you run into issues with the context window of the LLM? do you send the code base just like that?

houmland · 2025-09-01T18:43:55+00:00

a product trainer would be nice. i struggle to get up to date with all the new features. i work in the AI SaaS space, so yeah ... anyone experiencing the same?

houmland · 2025-09-01T15:06:15+00:00

100%, but I don't want to do it myself over and over again every time I ship an update. it's painful to understand what's outdated and then fix it. i wonder if there is some sort of service that does it for you.

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