How to Build an Internal API Platform That Developers Actually Use

Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations · Jun 3, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Many engineering teams build internal developer platforms that nobody adopts. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack why — and what one team did differently. They walk through a real case: a mid-size SaaS company whose API platform team spent eight months building a developer portal with every feature the team could imagine, only to find that six months after launch, fewer than 20 percent of services were using it. The hosts trace the root cause: the platform team built for their own ideal developer, not the actual developer — cargo-culting patterns from big tech without understanding their…