I can't speak to the people writing books on coding, etc., but I have written a lot of product documentation and am thinking about doing it full time as an independent consultant. The small startups where I have worked have had woefully bad documentation. Developers and support reps never have time or want to write it. I would say the most useful thing I have done for these companies has been to set them up with a ba…
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Doing this properly is often not the most fun thing that people can be doing, but is extremely important for getting others using your, well, whatever. I remember working with an older colleague who was excellent at building up good documentation and we'd follow whatever instructions were there, hit problems and solve them, add something to the docs then go back to the beginning and go…
Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to live off technical writing?
#61Thanks for the advice. I once read that if everybody thinks something is boring, but you find it fun, then it might be a lucrative niche. That's how I feel about documentation.