A new company is following in the footsteps of Stripe with a platform that makes it easy for any company to create clearAPI documentation while allowing non-technical team members to contribute to the process.
Theneo was demoing as part of the Battlefield 200 cohort at TC Disrupt this week to find out how they plan to get their slice of the $4.5 billion management market.
Modern software is held together by an application programming interface. They allow for in-app messaging without building the entire infrastructure themselves from scratch, fitness apps to visualize your running history through maps and online merchants to support payments powered by Stripe, and so much more. All manner of back-end systems and data stores can be connected with the help of the company's ownAPI.
There are many hidden heroes of the modern technological era. It isn't enough to just build the app, it needs to be recorded and presented in a format that's easy to understand. Theneo is trying to make its mark by getting the documentation right.
There is a sample of Theneo'sdocumentation. Theneo is the image's credit.
Ana Robakidze, co-founder and CEO of Theneo, said that she used to work on hundreds of APIs in a previous role, and that quality documentation is often lacking.
Robakidze witnessed the effect the documentation had on the project. As a team leader, I spent a lot of time searching for a tool that would assist us in creating excellentAPI documentation, as it is considered one of the best in the industry. Most of the tools had too many limitations and were either time- consuming or not very useful.
According to Robakidze, the root of the problem is that developers aren't necessarily technical writers. A lot of internalAPIs built for connecting a company's internal systems and apps are either completely un documented or not synchronized and maintained. As developers come and go within the company, it leads to an unwieldy mess.
The aim of Theneo was to make high-quality documentation quick to generate and easy to maintain.
Theneo analyzes everything and provides the required documentation for developers to use. An artificial intelligence assistant uses natural language processing to improve the documentation, including automatically describing the differentAPI attributes, which are the parts of the specification that developers need to request, send and deletion data, and so on. A "create customer" object has various attributes each with a definition so that the user knows what they are for.
It can take a developer or technical writer a significant amount of time to create a description for a field in your application.
A sample document showing fields and attributes. Theneo is the image's credit.
While Theneo is designed to automate the process as much as possible, it acknowledges that developers and other team members will need to fine- tune formats and wording, add more images or whatever it needs.
Robakidze said that they analyze theAPI, Parse it, and then return an already well- structuredAPI doc. The user can decide if they want to add more details, such as images, or if they want to add team members so they can work together.
Third-party developers appreciate a slicker interface that is easier to follow and the company provides additional tooling for the latter. This is a white-label product that can be tailored and branded according to the company's needs.
The basic plan at Theneo costs $20 per month per user, rising to $45 per month for unlimitedAPI projects on the business plan It has an enterprise plan that allows for features such as self-hosting. Robakidze said that the completely free version wasn't ready for prime time yet.
The co- founder and CEO of Theneo is Ana Robakidze.
Since it was founded a year ago, the Y Combinator graduate has raised over 1.5 million dollars in pre-seed funding. The updated documentation editor was designed for everyone involved in a software project regardless of their technical prowess.
Robakidze said that it's important for the users to collaborate when it comes to building the APIs. Similar to what Figma did, our documentation editor allows users to collaborate, so managers and non-technical members can easily work together on content and produce high quality documents.
Robakidze said that the company is open to working with any size and type of business, and it currently works with over 3000 companies.
Most of the customers are 20-plus developers.
Given that Theneo is looking to emulate one of the biggest fintech startups to emerge in the past decade, it makes sense that it is seeing traction within the field. The documentation that Stripe provides is one of the reasons why it is liked by developers.
Robakidze said that one of the reasons he likes working on the integration is that it makes it easy for developers to get the information they need. It took me twice as long to work on other Stripe alternatives because it was difficult to find the necessary information. We wanted to make sure that other businesses and developers could get the same high-quality documentation because developers love it.
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