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Who runs DEV Community, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest developer community alternatives.

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Trackers
Prices
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Stack Overflow

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than DEV CommunityNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com Top 1K English

    website for professional and enthusiast programmers

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  2. 02
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

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  3. 03
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

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  4. 04
    Hackaday.io hackaday.io English 2 trackers

    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.

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  5. 05
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

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  6. 06
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hot Questions - Stack Exchange

    Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.

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  7. 07
    DZone dzone.com English 3 trackers

    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.

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  8. 08
    Experts Exchange experts-exchange.com English 1 tracker

    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.

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  9. 09
    perlmonks.org English No trackers

    Client Challenge

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  10. 10
    Hashnode hashnode.com English 1 tracker

    Hashnode: a blog that gets cited by ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity

    Get cited by AI. Start a blog on your own domain, written by you or your agents, and built so Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity can read it and cite it. Free to start.

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    Instructables instructables.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Yours for the making

    Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!

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  12. 12
    Vocal vocal.media English 3 trackers

    Vocal

    Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.

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  13. 13
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

    Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games

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  14. 14
    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

    DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.

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  15. 15
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Tumblr

    Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.

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  16. 16
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

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  17. 17
    Guilded guilded.gg English No trackers

    Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities

    Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.

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  18. 18
    Pixiv pixiv.net Top 10K English

    Japanese online artist community

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  19. 19
    Arcalive arca.live Top 10K English

    Korean language website in Paraguay

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  20. 20
    Discourse discourse.org English 2 trackers

    Discourse | One platform. Any community.

    Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.

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04 · 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.

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Sites searched
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Query
34 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.

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