Han Wang @handotdev Twitter profile

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 years

What YC taught me about how startups fail

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

Beyond excited to announce @mintlify 's $18M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Since launching the product less than two years ago, we’ve grown to power the documentation for thousands of the fastest growing startups including Anthropic, Perplexity, Cursor, Pinecone, Zapier,

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Han Wang

@handotdev

11 months

When you ask a VC and a founder for feedback

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Han Wang

@handotdev

9 months

Paul Graham wrote an essay in 2013 called "do things that don't scale". As counter-intuitive as it seems, it's the best piece of advice that I've ever received. Here's our story 🧵

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Han Wang

@handotdev

30 days

We just coated with a fresh layer of paint. Here's why we did it 🧵

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

In case you're not convinced... we applied with 1. $0 in revenue 2. An MVP that we built over the weekend 3. No college degree or full time work experience

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2 months

The application deadline for the YC Fall 2024 batch is in 8 days

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

☀️ / 🌙 be hitting different

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 month

What's preventing you from having a 404 page like this?

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

Two years ago, I received my O-1 visa. It gave me work authorization in the US as an "alien of extraordinary ability". It allowed me to move to San Francisco, the heart of the tech ecosystem to start a company, fulfilling a lifelong dream. I am forever grateful.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

9 days

Not many people know this, but my dad is one of the reasons I became a founder. In 2007, my family immigrated from China to Canada. My dad, at the time, had a high paying job as a city manager at the State Grid, China's state-owned utility company. When he decided to quit his

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

Mintlify is now used by over 100 @ycombinator companies and the #1 most popular YC deal for the past 3.5 years. Appearing next to the many giants that inspired me to start my own company is something I never could've imagined.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

looking for wild and cracked engineers got products to build plz quit your job today. thx

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Han Wang

@handotdev

15 days

Trying something new! We found that 60% of all YC startups are using @resend , @porterdotrun , @rootlyhq , or @mintlify . We decided to bundle them together into one deal so YC companies can get everything set up more easily. Thank you @ryanRneu for helping put this together

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Han Wang

@handotdev

29 days

Currently hiring for many roles in sales and engineering. Join us in our mission to empower builders. Our work impacts thousands of next-gen companies and millions of developers every month. We also offer a referral bonus of $10k if we hire someone you recommend.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

Two years ago @hahnbeeIee and I submitted an application to @ycombinator thinking that we wouldn't get in. Not only did YC take a chance on us, but also they helped us grow into who we are today. We simply couldn't have done it without them. So shoot your shot before the

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 years

The poor man’s @ycombinator demo day setup. The important thing is that I’m still representing the homelands 🍁

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Han Wang

@handotdev

7 months

Thank you so much to the W24 @ycombinator founders for trusting @mintlify 18% of the W24 demo day companies use Mintlify to power the docs Grateful to be supporting your journey in building stuff people (developers) want 🙏

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

Just moved in to our new office at Mintlify HQ 3! Thank you HQ 2 you served us well 🫡

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

PSA: @resend + is by far the best email API experience compared to anything else available. I sent it up months ago and still get impressed by the quality of the results when it lands in my inbox 🖤

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 month

Same product. A year of obsessive iterations in between

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

A huge mistake I often hear is that good design is a “nice-to-have” for developers. While building @mintlify , I learned it’s not only important but necessary. I put together some thoughts on how we approach crafting a developer-focused experience here:

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

Can't wait to start seeing this soon

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

The @mintlify devex: - @nextjs for the frontend framework - @vercel for frontend hosting - @tailwindcss for css - @MongoDB for the database - @awscloud for everything backend - @resend for emails - @infisical for secrets management - @dubdotco for links - @mintlify for docs 😎

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

I watched many @ycombinator startup school videos throughout high school and college. The stories of some of YC's most iconic founders and partners inspired me to move to San Francisco and become a founder. Last weekend, YC invited me to speak at Startup School. I had the most

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

Letter to myself in Summer 2022: Hey Han, it's me, your future self in 2024. I remember what you're going through like it was yesterday. The 7th pivot just failed, and you're running out ideas. Instead of sleeping, you now stare at the ceiling every night wondering if the

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Han Wang

@handotdev

11 months

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself build a landing page with an animated gradient background

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@mintlify

11 months

just got a coat of fresh paint 🧵

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 years

It’s so hard to be a dropout in the US as an international student. All visas require either school sponsorship or a bachelors degree It’s a privilege to dropout if you’re American

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

I'm not fun at parties... but fun at board game nights Let me know if you're in SF and down to join us for a game night!

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

One of @zenorocha 's posts changed my perspective on support. He said that support is like a try/catch statement. Users go for the try block first, which includes the product, documentation, and examples. If the try block fails, users move to the catch block. Just like in

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Han Wang

@handotdev

11 months

@father_mihai fun fact: they actually pay you 🤨

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

Startups die by suicide not homicide. The biggest near death experience for @mintlify was during the early days when @hahnbeeIee and I almost quit as co-founders. It made me realize that the biggest existential threats to a startup is not what everyone is worried about

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

Every Thursday morning, everyone at @mintlify sits together around a table to update our docs over some glazed donuts. We call it "docs and donuts" and it's becoming my favorite tradition where we dogfood our product and exercise a habit that we believe is so important.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

Congrats on the new docs fresh off the press! It's been a pleasure working with @bkrausz and the @AnthropicAI team over the past few weeks and we're excited to ship more upgrades to their docs soon. Peep the translations! They're fully automated by Claude 3 👀

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

An interactive playground makes exploring APIs so much better 🔥 Try it out on our replica of @OpenAI 's docs at

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

It's the small things that matter. Today we ship server variables - a highly requested feature from our community!

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

We just made our automated emails a whole lot better! Thank you @resendlabs 🖤

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Han Wang

@handotdev

11 days

Nothing builds culture like offsites. This year, we went to Hawaii! Flipped over an ATV, and the joke is not going away anytime soon...

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 days

AI is re-inventing the way companies build docs. Excited to show what we've been cooking up soon...

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

Best interview advice that I have received: Ask the candidates to describe one thing they’re really good at. Then ask them to explain it. Look for how simply they could do it. Truly understanding something lets you explain it to a five year old.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

7 months

Congrats to the W24 companies for an amazing @ycombinator alumni demo day! You all inspire us, not the other way around 🧡

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Han Wang

@handotdev

25 days

New secret easter egg on Type "mintie" + return

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

A flexible and tailored documentation experience is an critical part of developing of a unified support ecosystem. That's why @mintlify is excited to partner with @pinecone to better support their self-serve customers. Read more about their journey:

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

AI companies in 2024: "but I'm not a wrapper"

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

Been looking for a product like @twentycrm for SOO long - the world needs a modern, lightweight, and OS CRM option

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

Feeling cute. Might delete later

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

Just refined our ICP Looking for an eng in devtools, seed stage, 5'9, blue eyes

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

The setup experience at @dubdotco is a masterclass in getting users to the "wow" moment ASAP. No signups required - just add your link right from the landing page. Shoutout to @steventey on such an incredible product and experience.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

We abide by a simple philosophy for at @mintlify called "EDS" - everybody does support. It's a shared responsibility for everyone to handle customer messages, and no one is shielded from it.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

They really cooked @AntimetalCloud and @oguzyagizkara

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Han Wang

@handotdev

8 days

I'm obsessed with settings pages. You can always tell how much a company cares about user experience through it. @linear 's settings page, unsurprising, is one of the best in the industry

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

if you're building a devtool and you don't have a globe on your landing page you're ngmi

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

Started a tradition where we start every all hands with a live customer interview. One of the better decisions we've made

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

Photographic evidence that I have indeed touched grass

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

Want a preview of your docs on Mintlify? Just put down your docs link and email and we'll generate a preview for you within 1 day. Head over to to try it out.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

@thekitze got manager moded

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

We update our docs as much as our product because docs are the product

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

Fun fact: I used to organize hackathons for high school students in Vancouver. Excited to be running it back in San Francisco in the midst of the AI revolution for developer tools. Come join us for a weekend of hacking 👇

AI Devtools Hackathon

AI has completely changed the tool stack that developers use. We’ve seen tools like Cursor, Copilot and Momentic completely change our workflows. So this hackathon is dedicated to building AI...

www.devtoolshackathon.com

Mintlify

@mintlify

2 months

AI is changing the way we build software. 4 y.o's are hacking together apps with the help of AI. If you want to be a part of this movement, come join us this weekend in SF Sept. 7th-8th! Register here:

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Han Wang

@handotdev

8 months

I've lost track of the number of times @coffeewithone stayed up at the office past 2 AM and was the first to get in. Bullish on One!

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@bindra_dhruv

8 months

Exactly a year ago, @coffeewithone and I were the only two students in the @DukeU library— coding at 4am. I noticed a YC sticker on his laptop and went to introduce myself, curious about his story. We sat for hours talking about our backgrounds, ambitions, and dreams to get into

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

gm 🌅

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

Flashback to that time PG hated our name 🥲

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

Jiro Ono, considered to be one of the greatest sushi chefs says “to make delicious food, you must eat delicious food”. Building developer products is the same. To do it well, one needs to acquire the taste of what’s great. Not many shortcuts. Just requires doing.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

7 months

Personalized company merch just dropped

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

We are hiring at @mintlify for a Head of Growth to join us in our San Francisco office! You are a great fit if you - Have 1+ years of experience at a startup - Want to work at a face paced environment - Are creative and experimental Learn more

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

Join us we're growing (fast)! We're looking to hire a Founding Support Engineer to support thousands of companies building on top of @mintlify . Also launching a $10k referral bonus if you send a candidate and they end up joining the team.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

I first met @zenorocha when React Email was a side project with less than 200 stars. It's been an honor to be a part of that journey as a friend, customer, and vendor. They grow up so fast but I know this is just the beginning 🥹

Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

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just crossed 10,000 stars on GitHub! 🤩 Thank you so much to every single one of you who supported this project. If you haven't starred yet, what are you waiting for?

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

So much about building a startup is just making small incremental improvements on the same things you've been doing since day 1

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Han Wang

@handotdev

8 months

Building something for yourself is one of the greatest advantages a company can have. We use @mintlify for our own docs. In fact, we built mintlify as the product we always wish we had. It's so much easier to understand your users when it's just yourself.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

Huge congrats to the @cursor_ai team! Best integrated coding assistant hands down

Cursor

@cursor_ai

2 months

We've raised $60M from Andreessen Horowitz, Jeff Dean, John Schulman, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe and Github. Cursor has become recognized as the best way to code with AI, powered by an ensemble of custom and frontier models, delightful editing, and petabyte-scale

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 years

The @sourcegraph Podcast is my hidden gem find of the year. For y'all devtool founders and engineers, it is an absolutely incredible listen

The Sourcegraph Podcast

Podcast · Beyang and Quinn · The Sourcegraph Podcast is a new show about developer tools and their creators. It can sometimes feel like a full-time job just staying on top of the latest libraries,...

open.spotify.com

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

<2024 age={23} location="San Francisco" isLeapYear={true} onClick={() => console.log('Happy new year!')} >

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 month

We at @mintlify is growing fast and hiring for our second AE! Our first AE @avilesdm is absolutely crushing it. We have a high velocity playbook, deals close fast, and everything is from inbound or expansion. Application link is in the comments!

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Han Wang

@handotdev

9 months

Hahnbee and I started our company not on the premise of a specific idea, but serving a specific audience that think we can be excited spending 10+ years building for: developers. Building for people that I can relate to and care about has made all the difference.

Dani Grant

@thedanigrant

9 months

Future founders - choose a startup idea where you’ll love talking to your users every day. One highlight of building Jam is getting to meet so many people working to change some corner of the world through software. It’s so awesome.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 months

I'm not flexing you're flexing

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@fmerian

2 months

psyched to find @mintlify ranked among the most-loved products on product hunt

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Han Wang

@handotdev

9 months

Less know fact: @coffeewithone was our first ever intern. Even though he’s no longer with us, he brought us tulips, apples, and this incredibly kind note. Thank you One! 💚

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

One very understated value of tech is that it's a positive sum game, which rewards genuinely nice people. I'm repeatedly surprised by how giving, humble, and genuine some of the most successful people in tech are. "Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending" - PG

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Han Wang

@handotdev

9 months

this but on the vision pro

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Han Wang

@handotdev

9 months

We took more or less the same approach to acquiring our first 10 customers as we did our very first. Then, the path to 100 customers was also through doing a lot of things that don't scale. You can read more about this story at 👇

How we grew Mintlify by doing things that don't scale

Our journey acquiring our first 100 customers and what we learned from it.

mintlify.com

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Han Wang

@handotdev

7 months

Come join us!

Mintlify

@mintlify

7 months

Want to join a small, but fast growing team? We have several exciting new roles available: ◆ Senior Full Stack Software Engineer ◆ Backend Engineer ◆ Developer Advocate ◆ Founding Account Executive Explore at

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Han Wang

@handotdev

5 months

Get yourself a co-founder with this kind of ratio

Hahnbee Lee

@hahnbeeIee

5 months

always be shipping 💯🚀 (i acknowledge the irony of me tweeting this)

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Han Wang

@handotdev

6 months

Welcome Mayank! So excited to have you with us 💚

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@mintlify

6 months

Thrilled to welcome Mayank to the team! Mayank joins us from Brex's product security team where he built core enterprise services and infrastructure. Fun fact: Mayank biked 150 miles from Houston to Austin... twice 🚴 P.S. we're growing! Join us at

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 months

Me after closing a sale that barely moves any metrics

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

Over 2 million developers to date have viewed content powered @mintlify , and it's growing fast. I can't begin to imagine what they have built

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

So much fun chatting with @juliannaelamb about our experience building on @stytchauth and our partnership to providing exceptional developer experiences 🔥

Julianna Lamb

@juliannaelamb

1 year

I had so much fun chatting with @handotdev about building @mintlify . We discuss their mission to build the developer communication platform and scaling a flawless docs experience to 5 million+ (!!) developers.

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 years

Hi this is photo of Han and Hahnbee eating at Her Name is Han. Open to suggestions on how to incorporate more Hans in a photo

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Han Wang

@handotdev

24 days

As I have come to learn, few things piss off an engineer off more than having bad or misleading docs

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

Launch Week is a go! 🚦 Preview deployments has always been one of the most common feature requests since day 1, and we're so excited that it's finally live.

Mintlify

@mintlify

10 months

Today kicks off Launch Week 2! This week, we'll be bringing you a new feature every day. Day 1 brings one of our most requested features: preview deployments 🚀

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

@rauchg @mintlify We can only take credit for the designs! All of the functionality is powered by @inkeep_ai 🔥

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Han Wang

@handotdev

11 months

Hahnbee: I have a few calls today Also Hahnbee:

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Han Wang

@handotdev

8 months

🖤 Huge thank you to @steventey and @dubdotco

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Han Wang

@handotdev

8 months

when you realize that Devin is an AI "Dev in" your team

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

Docs at @shadcn . So simple and intuitive 🤌

Christopher Ehrlich

@ccccjjjjeeee

10 months

Which technology is this?

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Han Wang

@handotdev

10 months

To anyone impacted by the recent layoffs and want to work at a high velocity and high impact role with good vibes ~ @mintlify is hiring for engineers 💚 DM me!

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Han Wang

@handotdev

2 years

We were inspired by @tryramp 's practice of counting the days so we built a Slack bot that reminds us our day number (and other KPIs) every morning ...and it's working Comment if you want access for your workspace!

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Han Wang

@handotdev

11 months

Apply with a cow joke and you instantly get an interview

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Han Wang

@handotdev

3 years

How dare TechCrunch question me for not knowing 100 cow jokes. Udderly ridiculous ... AND THERE'S 99 MORE OF THOSE

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

Isn't starting a company just an excuse to build a nice landing page?

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Han Wang

@handotdev

1 year

That feeling when you launch something that's been requested for over a year...

Mintlify

@mintlify

1 year

Day 5 of Launch Week brings our most requested feature yet—a Web Editor. Built with our markdown parsers, our Editor lets you: - Alter docs content on the web - Commit and push from the dashboard - View changes live with a high-fidelity preview of your docs content next to code

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Han Wang

@handotdev

8 months

Can't escape writing docs even when AI replace software engineers

Cognition

@cognition_labs

8 months

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is

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Han Wang

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1 year

Product complaints are amazing. When we get a complaint, it’s a nice reminder that people care and really want it to work. We really panic when no one complains.

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