Launch HN: SideGuide (YC S22) – Learn APIs by running them in live environments

📰 Hacker News · ericciarla

Hey HN! It’s Eric, Caleb, Nick, and Garrett from SideGuide ( https://www.sideguide.dev/ ). We give developers and technical PMs an easy way to learn and evaluate API/SDK products using live code environments. Our product is a lightweight, embeddable, online code environment that lets you play with APIs and SDKs in one click. Companies use us to let developers experiment with fully-configured examples with zero setup. If you saw Hyperbeam’s interactive example on Show HN a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32598062 ), that was built using SideGuide. We originally started as a B2C coding education platform after graduating college. Knowing how to use APIs has become a critical part of solving meaningful coding problems, but we watched hundreds of devs struggle to learn from API documentation. API and SDK documentation is often lacking in depth and interactive examples, leading to an incomplete understanding both of the implementation p

Published 1 Sept 2022
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