Docs are the last thing anyone writes. Automate the first draft.

Documentation is the chore that loses to everything urgent. Endpoints ship, the README stays a stub, and six months later a teammate reverse-engineers the API from the code because the docs were never written.

I built APIDocGen for the version of me that would rather not write docs by hand — and knows the first draft is the only draft that ever gets made.

30-second takeaway

• The first draft is the only draft — if it doesn't exist, neither does the doc.
• Endpoint list → Markdown reference with examples and auth notes, in one pass.
• A draft someone edits beats a blank page someone avoids.

The stub that ages into a lie

A handwritten doc starts behind the code the day it's written and falls further behind with every change. The team learns to ignore it and read the source instead, which is fine until a new hire can't. The cost is onboarding time nobody measures.

Generating the reference from the endpoint list means the doc is a byproduct of shipping, not a separate project that never starts.

What the tool does

Paste a list of endpoints and get a Markdown reference with request examples and auth notes. For devs shipping internal tools who'd rather not write docs by hand.

APIDocGen runs in the browser, no account, no key.

FAQ

What is APIDocGen?

A tool that turns an endpoint list into a Markdown API reference with examples and auth notes. No account, no key.

Does it read my code?

You paste the endpoint list; it generates the reference. Point it at your real endpoints and edit from there.

Will it stay in sync with the API?

It gives you the draft; keeping it updated is a habit. At least now the draft exists.

Author's Process

This product was built with AI coding tools. The point was removing the blank-page tax, not replacing the engineer.