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Optic

Making APIs Developer-friendly

Y CombinatorSummer 2018AcquiredB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsOpen Source

What they do

Problem

API teams struggle to collaborate on and govern API changes, leading to poor documentation and breaking changes reaching production.

Solution

Optic provides open-source tools that apply version control, code review, and CI-style workflows to API descriptions to document, review, and detect breaking API changes.

Who it's for

Software developers and API engineering teams at companies building and maintaining APIs.

Founders

Aidan Cunniffe
Founder/CEO
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