The a16z Show How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents
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Jan 23, 2026 
Hahnbee Lee, co-founder focused on product intuition and developer experience, and Han Wang, co-founder building docs-as-infrastructure, join to discuss how documentation is evolving. They talk about Mintlify’s many pivots, landing early customers with fast prototypes and white-glove onboarding, and why docs now power AI coding agents, internal knowledge flows, and self-updating doc systems.
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Docs Are Now Infrastructure, Not Just Reference
- Docs have shifted from explanatory material to operational infrastructure for AI and agents.
- When documentation is wrong, agents break, so accuracy now matters far more than before.
Two-Day Prototype Won First Customer
- Han Wang built Mintlify's initial prototype in two days and showed it to his roommate's YC company, Hyperbeam.
- That live demo and manual setup won Hyperbeam as their first customer and sparked early traction.
Do The Unglamorous Work To Win Users
- Do the small, manual tasks that don't scale early to spark customer love and learn fast.
- Offer hands-on help like migrating and improving docs to convert and retain early customers.