Do you have a product related to your APIs that you are promoting inside your developer portal?
Within a larger portfolio, a product microportal offers a highly tailored experience designed to help users explore and start using a specific API product, or a very small number of related APIs.
Microportals are designed to showcase and differentiate individual products (often commercial ones), rather than to group many APIs together. A significant challenge and point of interest is how these microportals achieve a balance between being easily found within the overall API ecosystem and providing a distinct, high-quality experience for a valuable product.
It's the counterpart to an API catalog: while a catalog covers many APIs, a product microportal concentrates on one of the many, offering a focused journey for both business and technical integration that's specific to that API. It acts as a highlighted product experience within the main developer portal, featuring its own limited menu and a self-contained system of content and user flow, even though it remains connected to the larger portal.
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Questions to ask:
- Do you have a product related to your APIs that you are promoting inside your developer portal?
- How is that integrated into your content architecture?
- How does it help your API program?
