Vol. II · No. 04 · APR 2026
HelpBaseHQ
● ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL — 42MS P9510,247 TENANTS ONLINENEW · V2 STREAMING API SHIPPING NOW ↗
§ The Cover Story
One API.
Infinite
tenants.
By the Platform Team12 min read
content platform for every customer you’ll ever have — shipped as one tidy REST API. Blog, FAQ, and Community forums that look like theirs, built on infrastructure that’s unmistakably yours.
No rebuilding help centers. No maintaining a fork for each enterprise client. No weekend spent on a markdown parser. Just four primitives, one dashboard, and a bill that scales with usage — not seats.
FIG. 01
Live on the wire · 14:02 GMT
“One request. Served three tenants, branded.”
POST /v2/tenants/:id/posts
X-Tenant: acme_inc
Content-Type: application/json
status: 201 created
latency: 42ms
acme.io
Getting started with billing
+ 217 more · live
help.linear.dev
Invite your teammates
+ 217 more · live
docs.northwind.co
Deploying your first app
+ 217 more · live
10,247
tenants in production
42ms
p95 edge response
99.99%
uptime, last 12 months
18×
faster than rolling your own
§ 02The Stack
Four primitives, one surface.
Read them left to right. Start with one, add the others when you're ready. Same auth, same SDK, same dashboard.
№ 01
Blog.
Long-form content per tenant.
Markdown and MDX with code highlighting. Scheduled publishing, drafts, per-tenant authors, category taxonomies, built-in RSS, sitemap, and OG tags.
GET /v2/posts
Stable · v2.4
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№ 02
FAQ.
Structured knowledge base, searchable.
Collections, articles, and redirects. Full-text search with typo tolerance. Embeddable widget that inherits your tenant's CSS tokens. Article feedback & analytics.
POST /v2/articles
Stable · v2.1
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№ 03
Community.
Threaded discussions, moderated.
Threads, replies, reactions, tags. Role-based moderation and auto-mod rules. Email + webhook notifications. SSO for any identity provider.
PATCH /v2/threads
Stable · v2.0
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№ 04
Platform.
The control plane for everything above.
Isolated tenants with usage quotas. Custom domains with SSL automation. Theme tokens (colors, fonts, layout). Webhooks, audit logs, and exports.
DELETE /v2/tenants
Stable · v2.6
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§ 03 · Dispatch from the field
We ripped out three SaaS tools and replaced them with HelpBaseHQ in a single weekend. Our customers got help centers we never could have built — it showed up in renewals the next quarter.
Mira Okonkwo
Head of Platform · Northwind Labs
Filed 04.18.2026 · Brooklyn, NY
── Engineering teams shipping with us ──
Northwind.LUMEN◇ ObsidianMonzo/LabsParallax
§ 04 · Classified
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