readthedocs

Domain: Documentation

🎯 Motivation

readthedocs is a free hosting platform that automatically builds and publishes your sphinx or mkdocs documentation from a GitHub repo on every push. It handles versioning and search, making it the easiest way to host docs.

📋 Concrete Example

You connect your GitHub repo to readthedocs.org, and every push to main triggers a build that publishes updated docs to yourproject.readthedocs.io automatically.

🔗 Analogy

readthedocs is like a publisher that automatically prints a new edition of your book every time you revise the manuscript. Readers always see the latest version online.