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DEV Community
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.
12 of the 60 sites closest to DEV Community match.
- 01
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close - 02 Very close
- 03
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 - 04
The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 05
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.
Very close - 06
photo sharing website
Very close - 07
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close - 08
Home — Weasyl
online art gallery
Very close - 09
Explore - SoFurry
Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.
Very close - 10
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 11
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close - 12
OpenJDK
Java development kit
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 110 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