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Comment by abledon | Hacker News Reader

its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese

It sometimes shows up when you're searching tech topics. I actually found a series of blog posts that explained how to write Erlang/Elixir NIFs in Rust with Rustler.

dev.to looks like equivalent to Qiita. Now zenn.dev is getting popular in Japan instead of Qiita.

Any cool monetization strategies on Qiita or Zenn? I know dev.to is betting on Coil, so I'm curious if Japanese developers have a method they're betting on.

Qiita has been acquired by game company Ateam 3 years ago. Possibly it works for the company's advertisement. They also selling collaboration SaaS called Qiita Team. I don't see any their cool monetization.

Zenn has been trying to sell paid article for profit. That's not so cool for tech perspective but it's looks good for me if they succeeded. Zenn was operated by single person but it has been acquired by IT(AWS) service company Classmethod very recently. Maybe they also work for the company's advertisement.

I can understand a fair bit of japanese and posts on Qiita have often been life-savers. They have quite a few medium-like long posts where people describe how to do something specific through a tutorial or step-by-step explanation. StackOverflow/Reddit aren't really great for that

Yes, it's everywhere when you search technical topics in Japan.

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