Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Ning
The 20 closest online community software alternatives to Ning, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Ning? The closest matches are Dribbble, LinkedIn and Big Cartel. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 16 ms
01 · Entity
About Ning
Ning ning.com
Wikidata: online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Summary by Claude
Ning is a hosted platform that lets people and organizations build their own branded online communities and social networks, with member profiles, forums, blogs, events and paid memberships.
- Who it’s for
- Organizations, creators, and community builders
- Business model
- Subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ning’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 Ning
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ning, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read ning.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
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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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Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses
Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.
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online publishing platform
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Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
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SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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photo sharing website
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#1 in audience engagement and community growth | Disqus
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
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NiCE: Customer Experience (CX) AI Platform for Transformation at Scale
Discover NiCE’s AI customer service automation solutions to improve CX and boost efficiency. Transform your customer interactions today!
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Deine Plattform für Petitionen · Change.org
Mehr als 500.000.000 Menschen setzen sich in ihrem Umfeld für Veränderungen ein. Mach mit.
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Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
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Welcome to wiki.gg!
wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!
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American online social media and social networking service
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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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豆瓣
提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较，以及城市独特的文化生活。
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ning.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Ning uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Ning 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 include:spf2.esputnik.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mai…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf2.esputnik.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mai…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ENLsgQP6F7Mpuw2ZV8xmbdkynftKHO5SFzKxfbNSBno
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ning adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on ning.com 13/20
- Apple Business · not on ning.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on ning.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ning.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on ning.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on ning.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ning.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on ning.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ning.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on ning.com 6/20
- React · not on ning.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on ning.com 6/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on ning.com 5/20