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I built an API workspace where docs write themselves — with AI chat and MCP built in

DEV Community·eknut w.·23 days ago
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Most developers I know use at least three tools for a single API. Postman or Insomnia for sending requests. Notion or a static site for documentation. And some custom script — or a lot of manual copy-pasting — for handling auth like HMAC signatures or chained tokens. None of them stay in sync. The docs go stale. The auth scripts break. And every new teammate has to figure out the whole setup from scratch. That's why I built APIKumo . What it is APIKumo is an API workspace that covers the full lifecycle in one place: Request builder — Monaco-powered editor, collections, environments, multi-tab, 20+ code generation targets Pre/Post processors — automate auth before requests fire. HMAC signing, bearer token from env, JSONPath extraction, variable chaining, response assertions. No external scripts. Doc publishing — publish to your own subdomain with version selector, changelog, scroll-spy navigation, and a live try-it console The part I'm most proud of: Docs API documentation has a reliability problem.…

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