The Mintlify Developer Advocate

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A developer advocate, DX engineer, or technical founder at a developer-facing company who chose Mintlify because they believed documentation was a product, not a document. They write docs in MDX. Their docs live in a git repository alongside their code. They ship documentation the same way they ship features: PR, review, merge, deploy. They care about the visual quality of their docs because they know developers judge a product by how it feels to learn it — and bad docs signal a bad API. They've recommended Mintlify to three other devrel teams. All three use it now.

• →Maintain beautiful, fast documentation that reflects the actual product without manual sync
• →Make contributing to docs as natural as contributing to code
• →Give developers the experience of landing on documentation that actually answers their question

• —MDX component limitations that require custom work for complex interactive doc elements
• —OpenAPI spec sync that works well for standard specs and requires manual cleanup for complex ones
• —Search that's good but occasionally misses the exact term a developer would use
• —The overhead of maintaining custom components across a docs site that grows in complexity

• Documentation is a product surface — it should be designed, tested, and iterated like one
• If engineers can't update docs in the same PR as the code that changes them, docs will be wrong
• A developer who can't get started from the docs is a developer who never becomes a customer

Manages a Mintlify docs site with 50–300 pages. Works with a team where engineers, PMs, and technical writers all contribute to documentation. Has a git-based workflow: all doc changes go through PRs with preview deployments. Uses Mintlify's OpenAPI integration for API reference pages. Has built custom MDX components for their specific doc patterns. Reviews Mintlify analytics: most visited pages, search terms, and user paths. Has set up AI documentation search for their users via Mintlify's built-in AI. Considers their documentation site a competitive advantage and presents it as such.

• →OpenAPI sync that handles complex specs — nested objects, polymorphic types,
• →webhook definitions — without manual cleanup removes the gap between the spec
• →and the published reference
• →MDX component library that covers the 95% of documentation UI patterns (tabs,
• →code groups, callouts, interactive demos) without custom development reduces
• →the engineering investment per documentation expansion
• →Doc coverage reports that surface which API endpoints, SDK methods, or features
• →have no documentation page remove the "we didn't know it wasn't documented" gap
• →Automated changelog generation from git commits and release notes removes the
• →manual changelog maintenance step that documentation teams consistently deprioritize

Pairs with `gitbook-primary-user` to map the code-first-MDX vs. editor-first documentation platform philosophy. Contrast with `notion-primary-user` for companies choosing between a dedicated docs platform and a general knowledge tool. Use with `stripe-primary-user` for developer-facing products where documentation quality is modeled on Stripe's standard.