Keeps API docs and SDK code samples in sync with your code and opens a fix when an example breaks
API companies publish hundreds of code samples across docs, READMEs and SDK guides, and they quietly break whenever a parameter is renamed or an endpoint is deprecated. Developers find out first: in one design partner's support queue, 14% of tickets traced back to a docs example that no longer ran.
Driftcheck extracts every code sample from your docs repo, runs them against a sandbox of your API on each pull request, and maps failures to the code change that caused them. It then drafts a docs fix in the same language and style and opens it as a pull request for a technical writer to approve.
Companies that sell APIs or developer SDKs, an estimated 25,000 worldwide, whose docs teams spend a large share of their time on maintenance rather than new content.
Planned pricing of US$300 a month per docs site for up to 500 samples, then tiered by sample count; design partners pay a discounted pilot fee today.
Amira SiddiquiCEO and Co-founder
Ben KowalczykCTO and Co-founderOur payments API docs have samples in six languages and we only ever tested Python by hand. On the first run Driftcheck found every sample broken by a parameter rename, traced them to one pull request and drafted fixes in our house style. Two engineers is a small team, but they shipped Go support for us within a week.
Reply from Amira Siddiqui, CEO
Your Go samples became our test suite for that release.
We maintain API docs for four clients, so broken samples are our problem before they are theirs. Driftcheck runs isolated code samples reliably, and its fix drafts for renamed parameters were correct. On a long tutorial where each step uses objects created earlier, it marked several samples as broken simply because the setup was missing, so we still check tutorials by hand.
Reply from Amira Siddiqui, CEO
Page-level sessions that carry state between steps are in testing with three design partners; we would be glad to add your client docs to the next round.
Amira ran developer relations at an API company and lived this problem, which is why the product produces pull requests for technical writers instead of yet another dashboard. 640 teams on the waitlist from one post is a good sign of demand. Pricing is unproven, and the team still needs to show pilot customers convert at full price.
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