DEV Community Alternatives

DEV Community is described as 'Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow. It is an online community for sharing and discovering great ideas, having debates, and making friends. Anyone can share articles, questions, discussions, etc. as long as they have the rights to the words they are sharing' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to DEV Community for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best DEV Community alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DEV Community are Ghost, Tumblr, Medium and Blogger.

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  1. Use a free (and ad-free) blogging platform to publish your ideas, share them with the Community and the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  2. Markdown Ninja is the easiest way to publish Markdown-based websites and newsletters. The days of hacking a static site generator, a broken theme, a complex CI/CD pipeline and a cloud platform with unlimited billing to publish a website are long gone!

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (40+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP + Smarty, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Bootstrap.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  4. Pillowfort icon
     9 likes

    [Pillowfort is currently in closed beta with over 40,000 users. Everyone who donates $5 or more will get a registration key (or keys) to create an account on the site]

    106 Pillowfort alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Plone icon
     66 likes

    Plone is an open source content management system based on the Zope application server, written in python. Its known to be powerful, reliable, secure and easy to use. Plone excels when compared to other content-management systems in standards conformance, access control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  6. Google Sites icon
     10 likes

    Web application for creating customized websites with modular drag-and-drop tools, unlimited pages, responsive design, template selection, theming, media embedding, and organizational features. No coding or hosting is required and websites adapt to all devices.

    217 Google Sites alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. Kirby icon
     15 likes

    Installing Kirby means uploading some files to your server and that's it. Blog articles, galleries, simple pages or complex product sheets – with Kirby you are not limited to a fixed data structure. Kirby is file-based – No database involved.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  8. Nicepage icon
     10 likes

    1st Website Designer breaking limitations of website builders with the freehand positioning. Nicepage generates mobile-friendly websites with the clean HTML code. Only Nicepage is available for Windows, Mac OS, WordPress, Joomla and online.

    154 Nicepage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Joomla
    • Wordpress
     
  9. Chyrp Lite icon
     7 likes

    Chyrp Lite makes it possible to host a blog on your own web server with minimal fuss. You can have a traditional blog, a tumbleblog, or you can add oodles of customisation and build a web publishing platform with blogging features on the side.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  10. Tilda helps you build websites for business and media. With Tilda you can create long forms and articles, as well as landing pages, websites, photo stories, blogs and all other kinds of content oriented web projects.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. HiddenLayer icon
     7 likes

    HiddenLayer.app is a discussion and information platform consisting of layers. Layers personify concepts, ideas, and data as independently run communities. Powered by a UI and infrastructure capable of organizing and analyzing millions of posts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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