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The Stripe docs are a master-class in API documentation. I strive to write APIs that reach the knees of the height of theirs, all while keeping the docs simple and understandable.

Amazing. No surprise from me the success they've had.

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Another feature about the Stripe docs that made me go "shit, these guys are good". When you are looking at the docs in your account, the "examples" will come from your own sandbox calls if you've made them. I remember the first time I saw that I was like "wait a second, that's my test data". I thought that was such a brilliant little touch, one of those things that immediately seemed like such a great idea that I wondered why I hadn't thought of it before.

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