Velu

Velu is a product-documentation platform for teams that write for both people and AI agents. Its maker introduced it on Hacker News on 1 October 2026, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to established developer-docs tools. Sites can carry custom domains, branding, search and API playgrounds, and setup happens at the command line through an npm package.

What Velu does

• Cited answers: an assistant answers readers' questions from the latest published version, linking to the pages it used.
• Self-updating docs: drafts and updates docs from repository context, and opens them as pull requests for review.
• Agent-readable output: maintains llms.txt and skill files so they track the docs, with one-click copying of AI-ready context.
• MCP server: lets coding assistants query the documentation directly as callable tools.

Who it serves

SaaS companies, AI companies and developer-tool makers, as well as teams that need product documentation or a private internal knowledge base.

Key facts

• Setup: an npm package, run from the command line
• Authoring: pages written in MDX or in the browser
• Launch: Show HN post on 1 October 2026