Archbee 3.0

Hey everyone 👋,

I'm Dragos the founder... 🫠, a bit nostalgic while I write this, but here's the story of Archbee.

💡 Archbee v0: 2018, stuck in a hotel room in Frankfurt... it was raining and I decided to code a software diagramming tool for architects. Scrapped the product after a few months of getting no traction.

💡 Archbee v1: Restarted in early 2019 with the idea for an internal docs tool for eng. teams that would include API docs, markdown, diagrams, changelogs, and GitHub integration after realizing all the tools out there (Google Docs, Confluence, Notion) were built for anybody, but not tech people. The product was getting some customers organically but did not show great traction either.

💡 Archbee v2: This version was just an improved, better-looking, less buggy version of V1. Launched it on ProductHunt in 2020 and it got to #1. However, most of the traction was coming from a wimpy feature: publishing docs on customers' domains.

Talking to customers, we realized there are still no great tools for building public product & developer docs for folks who don't want the DIY approach. Basically, no way of onboarding and activating your tech audiences without spending a ton of energy on docs tech.

The tools (diagrams, API refs, changelogs, markdown) cooked for the internal use-case, were actually a lot more useful for the public-facing use-case where the pain was obvious.

Pushing on this edge and armed with amazing customer feedback, we were able to secure our spot in YCombinator S21 and our first rounds of funding.

Today we present to you Archbee V3, your go-to documentation tool for onboarding and activating technical audiences into your products.

Just a few examples from amazing companies (SaaS, web3, hardware and more) that trust archbee for their documentation:

- https://docs.onarchipelago.com/ - https://hub.datree.io/ - https://docs.charthop.com/ - https://whitepaper.metabrands.io/ - https://docs.spren.com/ - https://docs.sizzy.co/ - https://learn.frase.io/ - https://docs.procesio.com/ - see 200+ more here: https://www.archbee.io/built-wit...

We're building a product documentation platform. "The Webflow" of documentation: write and hit publish.

V3 has a ton of new features, but here are the most important:

📍 a new user interface with dark mode for you and your users 📍 create in-app documentation with our embeddable widget 📍 reusable variables and reusable content snippets 📍 sync content with GitHub using markdown 📍 user authentication with passwords, guest accounts, magic links or JWT 📍 up to date documentation with doc verifications 📍 native OpenAPI import & integration 📍 documentation versioning & snapshots 📍 knowledge graphs let you see how your knowledge is interconnected 📍 PDF rendering

Archbee provides you with everything you need to build amazing docs for your users/customers to activate and get the full value of your product.

That directly translates to: 📍 more user activations for your product => more revenue 📍 more time for your team to focus on what matters: great content, not creating documentation technology

I'm sure this isn't the end of the development of Archbee as a product. This is why we'd love to get your input for the next stage.

Try it out today at www.archbee.io. We're offering a 15% discount FOREVER — enter the discount code product-hunt-2022.

GOGO GO!

Oh, yea... The team at Archbee ❤️ ProductHunt.