[Readme](https://dash.readme.io/) makes it easy for developers to create great documentation, provide transparency around code changes and build vibrant dev communities.

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# Background

This product is relevant to Steemit right now. The most important aspect of a crypto token protocol is the developer community and if the Steem protocol is successful the success is going to be led by developers. Right now, the [Steem documentation](https://steem.io/documentation/) is not very good. Additionally, there is no transparent changelog that highlights code changes and no comprehensive developer hub (see @tuck-fheman's thoughts about the lack of transparency on protocol changes in the post and comments [here](https://steemit.com/philosophy/@tuck-fheman/our-corrupt-sense-of-fairness-or-steemit-s-incessant-rule-changes)).

# Why would you want to use it?
Any developer building an API or leading an open-source project would want to use Readme as a way to foster a developer community.

Any aspiring developer on a protocol would want the protocol to implement it so that they could get up to speed building products on the protocol faster. I'm personally interested in building curation bots but haven't been able to figure it out with existing documentation (I'm a very novice dev). The

# What are some new products that you love? Hunt them with the tag #steemit-hunt
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* Follow me on [Steemit](https://steemit.com/@ntomaino)
* Follow me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ntmoney)
* Hear about why I'm excited about Steemit [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZknEN-xt6s)
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