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DevRel Communities

Communities where Developer Relations practitioners compare notes, ask questions, and find peers.

This page lists 5 options for DevRel communities, each checked against a live link and dated. CMX, dev.to, DevRel Collective, Hashnode, Developer Marketing Alliance are compared side by side below on the same criteria.

By Fabian HugUpdated

5 listings

CMXCommunitiesVerified Aug 2026

Community for community professionals with events and research, much of it DevRel-adjacent.

community-management

dev.toCommunitiesVerified Aug 2026

Large developer blogging community, a common distribution channel for DevRel content.

content · blogging

Community and content hub focused on marketing to developers.

marketing

DevRel CollectiveCommunitiesVerified Aug 2026

Slack community of DevRel practitioners; the de-facto watercooler of the profession.

slack · peers

HashnodeCommunitiesVerified Aug 2026

Developer blogging platform with custom domains, popular for personal dev branding.

content · blogging

Compared on the same criteria

The 5 most recently verified, measured identically.

CMX and dev.to and DevRel Collective and Hashnode and Developer Marketing Alliance compared on the same criteria
CriterionCMXdev.toDevRel CollectiveHashnodeDeveloper Marketing Alliance
CategoryCommunitiesCommunitiesCommunitiesCommunitiesCommunities
Focuscommunity-managementcontent, bloggingslack, peerscontent, bloggingmarketing
Public source repoNot statedYesNot statedNot statedNot stated
Last commitNot statedAug 2026Not statedNot statedNot stated
StarsNot stated22kNot statedNot statedNot stated
Pricing modelNot statedNot statedNot statedFreemium (checked Jul 28, 2026)Not stated
Link verifiedAug 1, 2026Aug 1, 2026Aug 1, 2026Aug 1, 2026Not stated
Listed sinceJul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026

What each one is for

  • CMX

    CMX is listed under Communities, tagged community-management.

  • dev.to

    dev.to is listed under Communities.

  • DevRel Collective

    DevRel Collective is listed under Communities, tagged slack, peers.

  • Hashnode

    Hashnode is listed under Communities.

  • Developer Marketing Alliance

    Developer Marketing Alliance is listed under Communities, tagged marketing.

Questions

What are the best DevRel communities for DevRel?
This directory lists 5 DevRel communities and does not rank one above the others: the criteria it records are structural, such as whether a product publishes a source repository, documentation, or a machine-readable surface. The most recently verified are CMX, dev.to, DevRel Collective, Hashnode, Developer Marketing Alliance.
How are these DevRel communities chosen?
Every listing is reviewed by hand against a published bar, then re-checked by an automated weekly health run that confirms the link still resolves to a live product. Entries are not paid placements. The data behind this page was last confirmed on 2026-08-01.

How to read this

Every fact on this page is copied from the product's own site or repository and dated. We do not test these tools hands-on, and the criteria are structural (what a product publishes) rather than qualitative (how well it works). Pricing is read off each product's own pricing page and carries the date it was read, so check the current page before budgeting. Where a product does not state something, the table says so instead of guessing.