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Summary

LiveDocs is an open-source, self-hosted chat box that answers documentation queries using both structured docs and the actual codebase, citing exact file locations to prevent stale or missing answers.

We're a two person team building an MVP. Every release something in the docs went stale. We ran a small hackathon for our users and kept hitting the same wall: someone asks "how do I do X", we check the docs, and the answer is either missing or wrong because the code changed two sprints ago. The annoying part is the answer always existed. It was sitting in the source, just not written down yet. So we built LiveDocs. It's a chat box you drop on your docs site that answers from your structured docs and your actual codebase together. If the docs are missing something, it fills the gap from the code. If the docs are stale, the code wins, and you can see where they disagree. Every answer cites the exact file and line with a GitHub link, so you can verify it's not making things up. It's fully open source and self hosted. Repo: github zyndai/LiveDocs
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