A better developer experience, through best-in-class docs
Who we are
Stellar Docs distills decades of experience and knowledge into clear guidance that's easy to understand and implement. We provide a premium service that delivers high-quality, value-additive work.
Larry Ullman
Principal
Larry was the first technical writer at Stripe, spending 9+ years across several key teams and projects. He started both the user-facing (external) and engineering (internal) docs teams, worked 2 years as a Support Engineer, and ended his time within the Solutions Architecture group.
Before Stripe, Larry wrote more than 20 books across a number of different programming languages and technical subjects. His books have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold more than 500,000 copies. Larry was also an Extension Instructor for the University of California, Berkeley.
Stellar Docs employs additional staff, with experience at Amazon, Uber, Retool, and more.
What we do
We cater our services to each client based upon their needs, resources, and timing. We specialize in external, user-facing docs and internal engineering docs.
Docs audit
Report with a set of recommendations for the overall docs experience—including content, structure, search quality, and design.
Friction log
Thorough test of your user experience with a report outlining gaps and shortcomings between the product and the documentation.
Information architecture
Thoughtful structure to make your docs easier to navigate and find, with a polished journey for your key user types.
Internal documentation
Efficiently onboard new engineers, make them more productive, and resolve—and even prevent—incidents through reliable documentation and runbooks.
Editing
Full editing of your documentation for clarity and consistency while building a custom style guide for the team.
Authoring
Professionally written docs that are most critical for your users while giving your team examples to replicate.
What you get
We take a data-driven, outcome-oriented approach to our work—creating measurable results that benefit your users and your business.
Higher ROI
Lower support contact rate
Faster time to "Hello, world!"
Competitive advantage
Boost sign-ups and revenue
Docs foundation
What clients say
Stellar Docs is amazing, and Larry and Dave are awesome: they are autonomous, hard working, and proactive to the point that we can just treat them as another team within our company; they have already vastly improved our documentation (content, information architecture, and general understandability) and saved us so much time.
Tomas Reimers
Co-founder at Graphite
The Stellar Docs team was instrumental in a recent refresh of our documentation. Larry and Dave worked super closely with us at each stage of the process. They helped us understand what we wanted to accomplish, laid out a plan to get there, then dove into the nitty gritty it took to actually pull it off. And the results speak for themselves. We literally have customers saying “I enjoyed reading your docs”. For developer documentation, that's Stellar.
Varun Mohan
Head of Product at Fragment
Stellar Docs helped the Apollo GraphQL team unify 1,400 articles across 10 sites into a cohesive paved path for our users, improving customer activation and retention. Dave and Larry quickly built trust with Apollo's leadership, ramped up on our product, and delivered an information architecture roadmap that saved our internal team a year of work. With their empathy for our users and seamless collaboration, Dave and Larry became a valuable extension of our docs team. I'm so grateful for our partnership, and I'd wholeheartedly recommend Stellar Docs to all my peers!
Peggy Rayzis
Sr. Director of Developer Experience at Apollo GraphQL
Working with Dave and Larry was a great experience and we're very pleased with how our new docs turned out. Dave and Larry helped us implement best practices in our new docs and are clearly experts in documentation. They also helped us move toward systems to make the docs easier to maintain. We ended up with docs that are clearer, more consistent, and easier for users to navigate.
I would highly recommend David and Larry's services to others. They are professionals who can help organizations greatly improve their documentation, the systems around it, and establish strong guidelines to ensure maintenance efficiency. They are also wonderful thought partners and easy to work with, too.
Chris White
Chief Technology Officer at Prefect
From our early days at Slab, Dave has been a consistent and insightful advisor. His deep expertise in documentation has fast-tracked our comprehension of both our users and the market. Dave's multifaceted contributions range from direct product insights to introductions to knowledgeable individuals in the field. His commitment and understanding of startups truly shine through.
Chengyin Liu
Co-Founder and CTO of Slab
Working with Stellar Docs on re-writing our developer documentation was an incredible experience. Their team's insightful and systematic approach, honed from years of expertise, truly transformed our public-facing docs. The result was clear, comprehensive, and prescriptive documentation. Our partners are delighted with the improved documentation experience. Huge thank you to Stellar Docs for this new source of partner leverage!
Matt Mitchell
Lead Solutions Architect at Parafin
Dave Nunez and the Stellar Docs Team have been extraordinary Partners. They overhauled our Documentation Strategy, sourced and recruited a world-class Doc Writer, and have served as a consistent resource to us for all things Docs. In 6 months of working together our Docs have dramatically changed and have gone from a weakness to a core competency that we regularly get compliments on from Software Partners integrating to Payabli. We're forever grateful to Dave and the SD team and highly recommend their services.
Jo Phillips
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Payabli
Working on our user-facing docs, Larry brought unparalleled proficiency to the table, turning intricate technical details into clear, actionable content. He swiftly became a reliable partner, seamlessly integrating into our dynamic team. Larry's commitment to excellence not only elevated our developer documentation but established a foundation we can build upon.
Andrew Arruda
CEO and Founder of Flexpa
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