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  What is a Developer Portal? An API without good documentation is no better than having no API at all. A Developer Portal is more than having good documentation, it is a great way to showcase your thoughtfulness in designing and documenting the API, to engage with the API consumers, and be the central point of conversation between teams. It sounds great, doesn’t it? But what is a Developer Portal (referred to as portal below) really? To put it simply, a portal is the interface between a set of APIs, SDKs or other interactive digital tools and their stakeholders. It’s worth emphasising that the purpose of a portal is more than meeting the needs of its immediate team (developers, QAs or PMs etc), but also engaging with other business and development professionals. It is not hard to find a selection of example Developer Portal for the finance industry, like Nasdaq , Dow Jones , SWIFT ; or industrial leaders in tech, Twitter , Google , Meta etc.  Why should you build a Developer...