Wang is building Mintlify so developer-tool companies can ship docs that convert users, with an AI assistant on top of a Git-backed workflow.
Han Wang is co-founder and chief executive of Mintlify, a developer documentation company in San Francisco, California. He founded the company with Hahnbee Lee and went through Y Combinator in Winter 2022.
Starting Mintlify through Y Combinator
Mintlify's Y Combinator profile frames the problem as twofold: writing documentation is hard, and maintaining the platform that hosts it is harder. The company launched as a Markdown-first docs host aimed at startups that wanted Stripe-like documentation without building the stack themselves.
Partnering with Hahnbee Lee at Mintlify
Lee is co-founder and focuses on Mintlify's technical side while Wang leads the company. Together they positioned Mintlify for developer-tool teams whose docs are part of activation, not a side project.
Pushing Mintlify Docs Toward Agents
Mintlify now includes an AI assistant, writing agent, and MCP support on paid plans, and it hosts docs for companies across AI and developer tools. Wang's public materials still stress developer-first authoring and measurable conversion from documentation, as on the YC page.
