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I was drowning in undocumented repos, so I built WhatDoc
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I was drowning in undocumented repos, so I built WhatDoc

via Dev.to WebdevHerin Soni1mo ago

I was drowning in undocumented repos, so I built WhatDoc Let me paint you a picture. It's 11pm. You just finished a side project you're actually proud of a clean REST API, solid architecture, working deployment. You push to GitHub and feel that little rush. Then you look at your README . # my-project ` # idk it exists. it does something. ` You close the laptop. That's not a hypothetical. That was me, repeatedly, for two years. Documentation felt like a second job I never signed up for. So I stopped doing it. And then I wondered why nobody used my projects. The actual problem with docs It's not that developers are lazy (okay, maybe a little). It's that writing docs requires a completely different brain mode than writing code. You have to step outside your head, pretend you've never seen your own repo, and explain every decision you made at 2am three months ago. It's cognitively expensive. So we skip it. But here's the cruel irony: undocumented projects don't get used. Unused projects do

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