Alternatives and competitors
Sites like DEV Community
The 20 closest developer community alternatives to DEV Community, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to DEV Community? The closest matches are cnblogs.com, Habr and Stack Overflow. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About DEV Community
DEV Community dev.to
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Wikidata: Online software development community
Summary by Claude
An online community where software developers publish blog posts and tutorials, discuss programming topics, follow tags, and take part in sponsored coding challenges.
- Who it’s for
- Software developers and programmers
- Business model
- Sponsorships and advertising
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
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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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.932 - 02
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close cos 0.924 - 03
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.920 - 04
GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal
Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon SES
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Analytics
Very close cos 0.917 - 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 cos 0.911 - 06
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close cos 0.910 - 07
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close cos 0.910 - 08
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!
Very close cos 0.909 - 09
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close cos 0.913 - 10
online publishing platform
Very close cos 0.907 - 11
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.910 - 12
online platform for coding interview preparation
Very close cos 0.906 - 13
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.907 - 14
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Mailchimp
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Publisher Services
Very close cos 0.906 - 15
photo sharing website
Very close cos 0.906 - 16
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.907 - 17
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close cos 0.909 - 18
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
Very close cos 0.906 - 19
Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.
Very close cos 0.904 - 20
Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Very close cos 0.905
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to dev.to’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones DEV Community uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What DEV Community is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what DEV Community adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on dev.to 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on dev.to 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on dev.to 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Zendesk · not on dev.to 6/20
- PHP · not on dev.to 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on dev.to 6/20
- WordPress · not on dev.to 6/20
- SendGrid 5/20
- jQuery · not on dev.to 4/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on dev.to 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on dev.to 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on dev.to 4/20