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, Joomla and Blogger.

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  1. 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!

    54 Markdown Ninja alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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]

    108 Pillowfort alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. 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.

    215 Google Sites alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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.

    90 Kirby alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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.

    153 Tilda Publishing alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. 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.

    148 Nicepage alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Joomla
    • Wordpress
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Apostrophe CMS icon
     11 likes

    Apostrophe is a powerful website builder platform built on an enterprise open source CMS, offering in-context live editing, visual design tools, and multisite enablement in a full stack JS environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • MongoDB
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
     
  12. Cockpit icon
     18 likes

    Cockpit was born out of the need of building a simple dynamic site. Sure, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and all the other full-stack content management systems are possible solutions for that task ... but let's be honest, often they are just too bloated and too time consuming to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • SQLite
     
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