Start your developer experience here: with clear, guided steps. Regardless of what kind of developers you want to reach, they will be more successful if you direct their first interaction. Adam DuVander and his team at EveryDeveloper have written hundreds of tutorials and reviewed thousands of docs sites. In this presentation, Adam will share “getting started” best practices culled from the best API companies.

1. Give Every Developer a
Quick Start
Adam DuVander
@adamd everydeveloper.com

3. First Impressions
First Experience
First 100 Calls

6. Find the API:
the game

17. benefits with a hint of features

19. Developer Content Mind Trick
AKA Signature Content

21. First Impressions
First Experience
First 100 Calls

24. Getting Started with a Getting
Started Guide
● Only one getting started guide
● … as the primary portal call to action
● … leading to a quick initial win

25. Don’t
Cover
Everything

27. Click-to-Cloud
👍

28. First Impressions
First Experience
First 100 Calls

29. YNMV
your number may vary

31. Understand Your Developer Use Cases

32. Kickstart Use Cases with Sample Apps

33. Where Does Every Developer Get Stuck?

34. Find Your Dev Portal’s Invisible Audience

35. There’s
Always a
Next Step

36. First Impressions
First Experience
First 100 Calls