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Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:23PM (#49503833)
what constitutes as a bad crawler and what information do you have that's attracting so many bots?
If you have a website and you're optimizing it for GEO, you can't assume that the agents are going to have the glue. So as the person maintaining the website you implement as much of the glue as possible.
> benevolent bullshit machine bestow a new user on me at the cost of nothing

that's awesome. i love this line.

keep us posted on how this change impacts your GEO!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025) on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:19PM (#45110823)
Mintlify | Senior SWE | Onsite San Francisco Mintlify is a developer documentation platform that helps companies and businesses build and maintain public-facing documentation (X, Coinbase, Anthropic, Scale AI, and over 20% of the last YC batch. The team is full of people who are builders at heart and are genuinely passionate about elevating developer experiences. Our team is small but mighty (28 people, including 10 engineers) with over 10,000 companies using us. We’re hiring all across the board - but in particular, we’re focusing on maturing our engineering organization and hiring more senior team members. If you’re ready to do impactful, hands-on work, we’re ready to chat. Apply at https://mintlify.com/careers
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025) on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:03AM (#44765194)
Mintlify | SWE/Senior SWE | Onsite San Francisco

Join us in our mission to empower developers worldwide! We're a developer documentation platform that helps companies build and maintain public-facing documentation (X, Anthropic, Scale AI and over 20% of the last YC batch). As for the team, we're builders at heart. Our small-but-mighty team is going from 0 to 1, laying down the foundations, and scaling (yes, all of the above). We prioritize attention to detail and are passionate about building tasteful user experiences. If you’re ready to do impactful, hands-on work, we’re ready to chat. Apply at https://mintlify.com/careers

Re:How we built our docs site on Thursday May 15, 2025 @01:28PM (#43997272)
Love it - I'm one of the cofounders of Mintlify and I love the thoughtfulness and intentionality you put here. We've found the navigation and hierarchy to mean a lot.

I also love your future docs roadmap - it aligns with our roadmap and some things are already there! - API keys are locally cached across the API reference. Let me know if there are more fields you think would be convenient to cache and we can investigate. - Whichever programming language you choose for a code block should also sync across pages. - We also launched AI translations so you can support docs in any language! - We also have AI Chat and are planning on devoting more resources to it so that it's best in class.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:59AM (#43252171)
Mintlify | mintlify.com | AI Engineer | On-site in San Francisco

Mintlify is building the modern standard for developer documentation. Our customers include the fastest growing AI companies such as X, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, Scale AI, alongside 6000+ other companies.

As for the team, we're builders at heart. Our small-but-mighty team is going from 0 to 1, laying down the foundations, and scaling (yes, all of the above). We prioritize attention to detail and are passionate about building tasteful user experiences.

Mintlify is looking for an AI Engineer to help us build, train, and optimize the first applications of AI in our product.

As an AI Engineer, you will be working to fine-tune LLMs, create RAG pipelines, and understand model performance. You will work closely with the founding engineering team to integrate AI directly into our products.

Apply at https://mintlify.com/careers

Congrats on the launch! Would love to chat sometime on getting a Mintlify integration going.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:32PM (#42921249)
Mintlify | mintlify.com | Product Engineers | On-site in San Francisco

Join us in our mission to empower developers worldwide! We're a developer documentation platform that helps companies build and maintain public-facing documentation (X, Anthropic, Scale AI and over 20% of the last YC batch).

As for the team, we're builders at heart. Our small-but-mighty team is going from 0 to 1, laying down the foundations, and scaling (yes, all of the above). We prioritize attention to detail and are passionate about building tasteful user experiences.

If you’re ready to do impactful, hands-on work, we’re ready to chat.

Apply at https://mintlify.com/careers

Re:Managing Secrets in Docker Compose – A Developer's Guide on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:53PM (#42915116)
We use Infisical for this. Are you doing anything different?
Sick demo - looks useful. I'd totally be down to try it out, but as a consumer product I don't really want to put my credit card down.
Re:Docs as code (2017) on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @01:15PM (#40918472)
I'm one of the co-founders of Mintlify and we're building a developer-centric documentation platform. The content is written in MDX and all managed through GitHub. Lately we've been building a web UI in conjunction with a GitHub integration so that non-technical folks can contribute easily - I think it's the best of both worlds (but I'm also biased). I do think docs-as-code would be hard if not for these more user-friendly UIs. Although we frequently chat with companies who initially say that our Github/code-centric setup is a blocker and they end up onboarding anyway.
Re:Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:06PM (#39946595)
I did not. Thanks for sending!
Re:Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:43PM (#39937193)
I'm trying to onboard onto Flagsmith right now and it seems like the identities feature [0] is exactly what I need but I can't seem to figure out how to enable it for an arbitrary string value. For example - I want to feed the SDK "mintlify" and get a response on whether "mintlify" should have a feature or not.

[0] https://docs.flagsmith.com/basic-features/managing-identitie...

Re:Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:54PM (#39936256)
Seemed like I can only filter by the end-user even though I wanted to filter by tenant.
Re:Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:53PM (#39936251)
Yeah, I just tried onboarding onto PostHog and I couldn't achieve what I wanted with my multi-tenant application.
Re:Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:38PM (#39934871)
Fascinating. This is exactly what I'm juggling between - whether I want to store the flag in our DB vs. on-the-fly evaluation. Just signed up for a demo w/ Flagsmith :)
Re:Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:23PM (#39922587)
Ah we're multi-tenant. In what ways do you feel like it gets complicated quickly?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024) on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:32PM (#39901434)
Mintlify (YC W22) (https://mintlify.com/) | On-site (San Francisco) | Full-time

We're hiring a full stack engineer to help build world-class documentation. Our tech stack includes Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Typescript, and Node.js. You can find the role here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mintlify/jobs/pk3AAR7-...

We're a small team of 7 people and we are all very intrinsically motivated and hard-working individuals. We want to set the standard for modern documentation.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Thursday February 01, 2024 @05:53PM (#39222658)
Mintlify | Founding backend engineer, Full Stack Software Engineer | ONSITE San Francisco, CA (US) | Full-time

At Mintlify, we're creating a world-class developer documentation platform. We're growing fast and we need a world-class backend to scale with our users. We're looking for a generalist backend engineer who isn't afraid of going from 0 to 1 and knows how to architect, build, and make decisions for the foundations of our software. If you're interested in working with production-ready apps with the newest technology in web development, please reach out to [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:15AM (#38519084)
Mintlify | https://mintlify.com/ | Backend Engineer | On-site San Francisco | Full-time

At Mintlify, we're creating a world-class developer documentation platform. We're growing fast and we need a world-class backend to scale with our users. We're looking for a generalist backend engineer who isn't afraid of going from 0 to 1 and knows how to architect, build, and make decisions for the foundations of our software. If you're interested in working with production-ready apps with the newest technology in web development, please reach out to [email protected]

Re:Our Design Principles Building a DevTool on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:29AM (#38278539)
TL;DR

- iterate, iterate, iterate

- developers deserve good UI too (if it's good it should be extra functional & increase productivity)

- Opinionated when you’re lazy. Infinitely flexible when you need it to be - developers want control & speed

Re:Generating MDX from string templates is a bad idea on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:28PM (#38197350)
Hello! Founder of Mintlify here - would love to hear what features were missing for your use case so that we can work on them.

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