StackShare

Name: StackShare
Brand: StackShare

Tech Stack Intelligence for 1M+ developers. Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star 💫

Est 2015|Valuation $22.9M|Raised $10M|39 Ref Customers

LinkedIn 4K|Web traffic 204K|FTEs 7|HQ San Francisco, California, US

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

- StackShare vs BuiltWith/Wappalyzer: StackShare is differentiated by community discussion and explicit stack profiles, while BuiltWith/Wappalyzer are optimized for bulk detection, reporting, and lead generation. For objectives focused on identifying sites using a technology at scale and extracting contact lists, StackShare is not the most suitable option. - StackShare vs internal governance tools: StackShare (especially after the enterprise SKU sunset) is not positioned as a governed internal inventory system. Enterprises needing compliance workflows are better served by ITAM/EA and security governance products. - Post-acquisition reality: the enterprise SKU is being sunset; buyers who needed internal toolchain governance should evaluate the acquirer’s roadmaps or alternative vendors rather than assuming StackShare still offers that SKU.

Market share and adoption trends

Press- and vendor-reported scale suggests awareness in developer communities, but those figures are not audited public metrics.
Competitor technographic vendors claim extensive domain coverage for web-detection and lead-generation use cases.

	StackShare (Community-focused, post-2024)	BuiltWith	Wappalyzer
Starting Price	Free for typical browsing (enterprise product sunset; pricing N/A)	Tiered subscription (hundreds per month)	Tiered subscription (hundreds per month)
Best For	Developers researching tools; seeing what companies use; community discussion	Sales/marketing/research teams needing web technographics and reporting	Sales/marketing teams needing technographics, lead lists, alerts, API
Key Strength	Community context + stacks + discussion; developer-centric framing	Large-scale web technology indexing, exports and datasets	Lead-gen oriented, alerts, APIs; competitive pricing vs alternatives
Key Weakness	Data can be incomplete/biased; enterprise product discontinued; not a system-of-record	Less community context; cost can escalate; oriented to sales ops	Not a community; can be expensive at scale; oriented to sales workflows

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

StackShare vs BuiltWith/Wappalyzer: StackShare is differentiated by community discussion and explicit stack profiles, while BuiltWith/Wappalyzer are optimized for bulk detection, reporting, and lead generation. For objectives focused on identifying sites using a technology at scale and extracting contact lists, StackShare is not the most suitable option.
StackShare vs internal governance tools: StackShare (especially after the enterprise SKU sunset) is not positioned as a governed internal inventory system. Enterprises needing compliance workflows are better served by ITAM/EA and security governance products.
Post-acquisition reality: the enterprise SKU is being sunset; buyers who needed internal toolchain governance should evaluate the acquirer’s roadmaps or alternative vendors rather than assuming StackShare still offers that SKU.

Market share and adoption trends

Press- and vendor-reported scale suggests awareness in developer communities, but those figures are not audited public metrics.
Competitor technographic vendors claim extensive domain coverage for web-detection and lead-generation use cases.

	StackShare (Community-focused, post-2024)	BuiltWith	Wappalyzer
Starting Price	Free for typical browsing (enterprise product sunset; pricing N/A)	Tiered subscription (hundreds per month)	Tiered subscription (hundreds per month)
Best For	Developers researching tools; seeing what companies use; community discussion	Sales/marketing/research teams needing web technographics and reporting	Sales/marketing teams needing technographics, lead lists, alerts, API
Key Strength	Community context + stacks + discussion; developer-centric framing	Large-scale web technology indexing, exports and datasets	Lead-gen oriented, alerts, APIs; competitive pricing vs alternatives
Key Weakness	Data can be incomplete/biased; enterprise product discontinued; not a system-of-record	Less community context; cost can escalate; oriented to sales ops	Not a community; can be expensive at scale; oriented to sales workflows

StackShare

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Market share and adoption trends

02Market Map

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Market share and adoption trends

02Market Map