DEV.to VS Umso

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

Umso Reviews

DEV.to mentions (384)

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• Personas - an Ai Assistant

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• Things you should do in your dev journey 🖥️👩‍💻

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Umso mentions (3)

• Tools I used to scale a lawncare SMB to $40k/mo with around 40% profits

  Umso.com - to create a landing page that everyone on the team could quickly edit. Source: 12 months ago

• MicroSaaS - a way to wealth for builders and hustlers

  Notion.so is a tool that helps manage projects and all that good stuff. Many people plan their website content on Notion for their new website or landing page. Then one day, one guy, how's about building a tool that takes that content and turns into a website quickly. BOOM -> potion.so was born. This tool solves a few sound problems: simple to spin up a website through Notion without spending extra effort and... Source: over 2 years ago

• Advice for Saas development

  First up - inspite of you getting positive feedback for the idea from your connections, put together a concept page using any of the template based site builders like a umso.com, webflow.com etc. And run a simple experiment to see how many of your target audience signs up to get an early bird access to your biz/product. You can also use this to build your initial subscriber/mailing list. Source: over 2 years ago