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Stack Overflow
Who runs Stack Overflow, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Developer Q&A community alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Stack Exchange
Measured from Stack Overflow’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Stack Overflow01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
Wikidata: website for professional and enthusiast programmers
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Stack Overflow tracks
We couldn’t read stackoverflow.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Stack Overflow
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Stack Overflow, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Stack Overflow match.
We can’t read stackoverflow.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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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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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
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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。
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Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
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Quotev
Read or write a story, book, quiz, survey, or poll. Follow others who share your interests
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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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The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
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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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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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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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Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.
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Mix — Expand your mind
Discover the gems of the web, personalized to you.
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Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
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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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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.
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AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
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Full Disclosure
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Stack Overflow’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Stack Overflow 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 Stack Overflow 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Stack Overflow’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
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- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.38.191.241 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org …
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=e445562296a64c649ae3d520230b8c4c
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fa9ae9f4b1e5-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms52592611
- Email delivery
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sureena.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=25ba5203f3687c9cd6ee3223ee5de1528917828d1…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=O9jlnJXAQ7sNSZqC
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on stackoverflow.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on stackoverflow.com 5/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on stackoverflow.com 4/20
- DocuSign 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on stackoverflow.com 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on stackoverflow.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 3/20
- OneTrust 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on stackoverflow.com 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on stackoverflow.com 2/20
- jQuery · not on stackoverflow.com 2/20