Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Zenn
Information sharing community for engineers in Japan
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zenn launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2014 · news.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Build AI agents. Share org-wide. 100+ Tools&MCP
2025 · docs.zencoder.ai · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dev community that lets you blog on your domain for free
2020 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →
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Zenkit 3.0▲174Flexible project management you can share with the world
2019 · zenkit.com · its alternatives →
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Collaborate and chat with your knowledge base everywhere
2023 · textcortex.com · its alternatives →
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Zennbox▲255Save & organize your resources. Take notes with AI
2025 · zennbox.app · its alternatives →
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Project Management Inside GitHub – Free for open-source + …
2015 · its alternatives →
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Get deep and actionable insights from your Github repos
2019 · zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, I love HN! I wanted to extend the same aesthetic and community towards things beyond tech-related news. I thought it would be cool to get the same quality of community gathered around the latest and greatest research coming out. Let me know what you guys think of what I have so far. It's still early so there are probably bugs and other quality issues. If there's any features missing that you'd want let me know. ALSO, if any of you are familiar with the map of the territory of any particular field, please let me know! Would love to pick your brain and to come up with a 'most…
2024 · papertalk.xyz · its alternatives →
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Search and send Zendesk articles right from Intercom.
2019 · intercom-help-center.getalvis.com · its alternatives →
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Zeno▲233Analyze company data, browse the web, and act on insights
2024 · textcortex.com · its alternatives →
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Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS! There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README. [1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata: if ( 3 > 0 + !!blog.title + (blog.desc.length > 40) + !!blog.about + !!blog.now +…
2023 · blogs.hn · its alternatives →
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Surface articles from Zendesk in Slack
2020 · zendesk.com · its alternatives →
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Where devs + non-dev teams manage projects together
2023 · zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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ZenJournal is a minimalist private journaling app for quick logging, search, and discreet writing. Open, type, done. No prompts, titles, or reminders.
2021 · thezenjournal.com · its alternatives →
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Story point estimation in GitHub with ZenHub
2021 · zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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