DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   | CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA | about 4 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Hacker Noon Reviews

1. David Smooke

   | CEO at HackerNoon | over 1 year ago
   Sustainable business growth = sustainable blogging platform

   HackerNoon's doubled revenue for 5 years in a row. So instead of using blogging platforms that are VC propped up or owned by wealthy non-operators, consider publishing on HackerNoon instead!

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Sustainable|Awesome community|High quality content|Human editor|Built in distribution|Readership|Latest technology
2. Suzy

   | intern at faang | over 3 years ago
   so much free tech content!

   product management, software development, startup management ---- so so so many free stories.

   🏁 Competitors: TechCrunch, Medium, The Information, Substack
3. Mark

   over 3 years ago
   Best writer experience so far!

   Love the writer's onboarding process on Hacker Noon. Some personal touches make the whole experience of stories submission even more enjoyable for me. Way to go!

   👍 Pros:    Seamless onboarding|Web traffic|User-friendly

DEV.to mentions (395)

• Writing an Obsidian Plugin Driven By Tests

  I recently developed the initial version of Obsidian DEV Publish Plugin, a plugin that enables publishing Obsidian notes as articles on DEV. The first prototype was developed during a ~4 hour live stream. - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Install Docker and Portainer in a VM using Ansible

  Note: The inventory.yml file is not shared since that depends on the actual environment So it will be different for everyone. If you want to learn more about the inventory file Watch the videos on YouTube or read the written version on https://dev.to. Links in The video descriptions on YouTube. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago

• How Can I Create a DevOps Pipeline That Automatically Resolves All Conflicts and Bugs Without Human Intervention?

  Also, follow DevOps best practices on Dev.to and explore the Jenkins Documentation. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Two Days Indie Dev Life: Mailchimp, Webflow & Zapier - A Love Story

  I’ve been active on twitter for about a week now. It’s still kind of new to me but something really cool happened yesterday. DEV.TO put one of my daily blogs in one of their tweets, they have like 300k+ followers, I couldn’t believe it. Very very cool, thanks a lot 🙏. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• How to use database triggers in Rails

  Now let's try to create a URL. Assuming the Url model is already created, we expect that calling Url.create(long: 'https://dev.to') will return a Url object with both long and short attributes populated. However, by default, this won't happen because Rails expects that after a record is created, only the ID and timestamps can change, so it doesn't update other attributes. To make this work, I will redefine the... - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago

Hacker Noon mentions (15)

• Ask HN: What are some of the best SaaS/tech blogs?

  There are several fantastic SaaS and tech blogs out there that offer valuable insights. Some of my personal favorites include Rather Labs blog (https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog) TechCrunch for the latest tech news (https://techcrunch.com/), SaaStr for SaaS-focused content (https://www.saastr.com/), and Hacker Noon for a mix of tech topics (https://hackernoon.com/). If you're into deep tech dives, MIT Technology... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• A Developer's Guide to Blogging

  HackerNoon is very different to dev.to & Hashnode in that any article you submit there has to go through a human editor who works with you to ensure your article is at its best before it is published. However, they may choose not to publish your article at all. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Best Websites For Coders

  Hacker Noon : How hackers start their afternoons. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• The comeback of the Fediverse and the Old Web

  It was monetization, though, what drove Hackernoon to leave Medium And start its own publication platform. Same as Medium and other sites such as Dev.to, they honor the canonical tag (so we can publish in our own personal blog, and then re-publish there for greater visibility)... well, they did, not anymore. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Where do developers hang out in 2022?

  Hackernoon is a perfect place where you can read (or write) plenty of various tech stories. It’s a global community of 15,000+ writers and over 3,000,000 of monthly readers. Some real person on Twitter said that you can find on Hackernoon "the best hacker and developer publication on the internet". Check it out for yourself. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago