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Five vs Medium

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Overview

Medium
Medium
Stacks768
Followers699
Votes190
Five
Five
Stacks4
Followers6
Votes0

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Medium
Medium
Five
Five

Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward.

It is a low-code development environment that helps software developers build and deploy custom business applications faster by providing them with pre-built components that can be mixed with full code almost anywhere. Five is fully extensible through SQL, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

Embedding videos, tweets, vines, etc; Word counter; Drafts; Notes; Version history; Embed Medium anywhere; Publications; Custom domains; Discussion; Topics
Full-stack and low-code; Manage and create a web-hosted MySQL database; Deploy to development, testing, or production in a single click; Create and manage application instances; Build CRUD applications with granular access control; Full audit trail of all application changes
Statistics
Stacks
768
Stacks
4
Followers
699
Followers
6
Votes
190
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 61
    Beautiful UI
  • 34
    Typography
  • 15
    Network effect
  • 12
    Embedding videos, tweets, vines
  • 12
    Great mobile app
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Integrations
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TypeScript
TypeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
C#
C#
WebAssembly
WebAssembly

What are some alternatives to Medium, Five?

Blazor

Blazor

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.

Stamplay

Stamplay

The API-based development platform enabling developers to do 80% of the job in 1% of the time thanks to: out of the box APIs for users and data, one-click integration with any API, scalable infrastructure and SDKs. Build Rome in a day.

Tumblr

Tumblr

Tumblr is a feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable templates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network. The site now ranks as the 11th-largest in terms of traffic, according to Quantcast, with 170 million monthly visitors globally.

Kumologica

Kumologica

It is the first low-code development solution that run your integration and automation services serverlessly on any cloud. It provides drag and drop visual designer and low code approach to ensure the greatest speed and flexibility to support a wide range of integrations compatible with most of the platforms and cloud providers.

Quora

Quora

It connects you to everything you want to know about. Quora aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web. We organize people and their interests so you can find, collect and share the information most valuable to you.

Blogger

Blogger

Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.

Backand

Backand

Backand is a powerful backend-as-a-service for AngularJS that provides out-of-the-box social login, push notifications, Ionic integration and much more.

Posthaven

Posthaven

We need a good solid blog platform for ourselves, and we know our friends and colleagues need one too. That's why we started Posthaven. We're not going to show ads. We're not looking for investors. We're going to make money the best way we know how: charging for it. It will be everything you expect in a blog platform - simple and modern.

Acquia

Acquia

The leader in enterprise Drupal solutions providing a powerful cloud-native platform to build, operate, and optimize your digital experience. It provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for the open-source web content management platform Drupal.

Stacker

Stacker

Stacker lets you turn your spreadsheets into applications. You plug in your Airtable or Google Sheets and Stacker automatically generates you app with login, forms and buttons. Stacker includes built in permissions, UI and business logic.

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