Optic
Optic is a B2B company based in New York, offering tools that help developers collaborate on APIs by documenting and reviewing changes, and catching breaking changes before production. It serves primarily the North American market and operates fully remotely.
Company Overview
Optic is a B2B company that operates in the Engineering, Product, and Design sub-industry. The company launched on April 26, 2018, and participated in Y Combinator's S18 batch. Optic has a small team size of 5 and serves regions including the United States of America, America/Canada, and offers fully remote options. The company is active and positioned as an early-stage startup.
Locations and Team
Optic is based in New York, NY, USA, and also operates remotely. The team is comprised of 5 members who focus on developing tools that help developers collaborate at scale, particularly in building and managing APIs.
Products and Services
Optic offers various open source tools designed to document API changes, review API changes during code reviews, and catch breaking changes before they reach production. Their solutions apply successful ideas from Git, Code Review, and CI to API descriptions and other non-code artifacts, effectively serving as version control for behavior. Engineers at companies such as Snyk use Optic's tools daily to enhance their APIs. Optic also provides tutorials, a demo repository, and a developer portal with the latest API documentation.
Key Features and Tools
Optic's tools include a feature for writing API style guides called LintGPT, API contract testing, API change tracking, and daily API changelogs. During code reviews, Optic posts a visual API diff to each Pull Request to facilitate easier API change reviews. The platform also enforces common API style guides to help improve API designs. Additionally, Optic provides a developer portal that always has the latest API documentation, and a demo repository to let users try out the features.
Educational Resources and Developer Support
Optic offers comprehensive tutorials covering various aspects such as documenting existing APIs, building API style guides, API contract testing, and running Optic in continuous integration environments. These resources are designed to help developers seamlessly integrate Optic's tools into their workflows to enhance their API development and maintenance processes.