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Who runs DEV Community, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest developer community alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Stack Overflow
Measured from DEV Community’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit DEV Community01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs DEV Community
DEV Community dev.to
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Wikidata: Online software development community
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What DEV Community tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
3 of the 10 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to DEV Community
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to DEV Community, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close - 02
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close - 03
online publishing platform
Very close - 04
network of software developers in China
Very close - 05
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 06 java.net Top 10K
defunct Java technology related community website with a web-based source code repository for Java projects
Very close - 07
博客园 - 开发者的网上家园
博客园是一个面向开发者的知识分享社区。自创建以来，博客园一直致力并专注于为开发者打造一个纯净的技术交流社区，推动并帮助开发者通过互联网分享知识，从而让更多开发者从中受益。博客园的使命是帮助开发者用代码改变世界。
Very close - 08
SegmentFault 思否
SegmentFault 思否是中国专业的开发者技术社区。我们以技术问答、技术博客、技术课程、技术资讯为核心的产品形态，为开发者提供纯粹、高质的技术交流平台。
Very close - 09 HackerNoon hackernoon.com
American online magazine and blog software (2016-)
Very close - 10 MetaFilter metafilter.com
general-interest community weblog
Very close - 11 Indie Hackers indiehackers.com
podcast
Very close - 12
Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community.
Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.
Very close - 13
product discovery website
Very close - 14 Hackster hackster.io
hacker/maker social network
Very close - 15
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close - 16
DZone: Programming & DevOps news, tutorials & tools
Programming, Web Development, and DevOps news, tutorials and tools for beginners to experts. Hundreds of free publications, over 3M members, totally free.
Very close - 17
Experts Exchange | Verified Solutions from Real Technology Experts
Solve your toughest tech problems with expert-verified answers, not AI guesses. 30 years of trusted solutions from vetted professionals. Try it free.
Very close - 18 Very close
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稀土掘金
掘金是面向全球中文开发者的技术内容分享与交流平台。我们通过技术文章、沸点、课程、直播等产品和服务，打造一个激发开发者创作灵感，激励开发者沉淀分享，陪伴开发者成长的综合类技术社区。
Very close - 20
OSCHINA - 开源 × AI · 开发者生态社区
OSCHINA.NET 是面向开发者的开源与 AI 生态社区。我们倡导开源协作，以内容为核心，并以 AI 提升知识的获取与创作效率，围绕智库、造物与交流形成实践闭环，让开发者在同一生态中发现项目、应用方案并与社区共建。
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles DEV Community’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones DEV Community uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what DEV Community adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to DEV Community’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:serv…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-den-kden1300099-DEN, cache-ber1080052-BER
- Site search
- Algolia page source: .algolia.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:serv…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS josh.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=gBymLBYHWAhiurCH
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=VzRovTWhxjedMqXFfoiZ-UNRnlnuTXYHgjKem…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=zCVAh2LwmipcARJzgrOsfKwa1EInl8cOTTFQDeUSBxk
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=1xzy1qk89qs7ngxdt5e4s0kvvqw701
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on dev.to 7/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Mailgun · not on dev.to 4/20
- OpenAI · not on dev.to 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on dev.to 4/20
- Atlassian · not on dev.to 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on dev.to 3/20
- SendGrid 3/20
- Zendesk · not on dev.to 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on dev.to 3/20
- Meta Business Suite 3/20
- Baidu Analytics · not on dev.to 3/20
- jQuery · not on dev.to 3/20