zed.dev
DR 81by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 60/100
6y2020-09-03Domain Age
1.4M-22%Monthly Visits
Search 50%United States 16%Primary Channel
3Competitors

Product Identity

About

The IDE scratch-built in Rust, now with 100% more agents

CategoryText Editors

The IDE scratch-built in Rust, now with 100% more agents

335votes
5.0 ★Rating
20Comments
Launched: May 7, 2025Text EditorsView on Product Hunt

Product Identity · Insight

Strong community recognition (335 PH upvotes) but no public revenue — possibly in a growth-first phase or operating as a free product.

Growth Profile

Monthly Visits

1,447,494

21.7% vs last month

Bounce Rate

41.1%

Pages / Visit

2.7

Avg. Session

2m 1s

Domain Age

5.9 years

#39,342Global Rank
#44,997Country Rank (840)
#913Category Rank · Programming_and_Developer_Software
Traffic Trend
21.7%

Growth Profile · Insight

Monthly visits of 1.4M with 2m01s average session. A moderate bounce rate (41%) suggests typical visitor engagement.

Acquisition Engine

Traffic Sources
Organic Search
48.9%
Direct
33.9%
Social
7.5%
Referral
7.2%
Paid
0.2%
Email
0.7%
Gen AI
1.6%
Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
16.4%
🇨🇳ChinaCN
13.0%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
7.7%
🇮🇩IndonesiaID
4.9%
🇩🇪GermanyDE
4.0%
Top 3 countries account for 37.2% of traffic
Top Keywords
Keyword
zed214.8K$1.16$209.8K
zed editor37.4K$1.68$44.9K
zed ide22.3K$1.38$26.4K
zed ai6.9K$4.52$7.9K
zed dev2.8K$0.00$3.2K
SERP Rankings
KeywordRanking URL
zed#1🏠zed.dev/145,770$1.42
zed editor#1🏠zed.dev/37,400$2.94
zed ide#1🏠zed.dev/22,700$3.91
zed ai#3📄zed.dev/pricing5,690$4.85
zed ai#4📄zed.dev/blog/on-programming-with-agents5,690$4.85

Acquisition Engine · Insight

Search is the primary acquisition channel (50%), ranking for 5 keywords with traffic concentrated in United States (16%). Heavy reliance on one channel creates vulnerability.

How does zed.dev actually grow?

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Competitive Landscape

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matsuoka.com

matsuoka.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

my journey

22.6K/mo-13%Feb 1996

Shares 3 keywords including "zed"

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2point0.ai

2point0.ai

🔗 3 keyword overlap

Learn how to use Continue with Ollama to run a powerful local AI coding assistant. Ensure privacy, enable offline use, and unlock tab autocompletion and embeddings.

782/moJan 2024

Shares 3 keywords including "zed editor"

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mashblog.com

mashblog.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Stay ahead with MashBlog. Discover articles on coding, artificial intelligence, startups, and tutorials written for developers, founders, and tech enthusiasts.

0/moAug 2025

Shares 2 keywords including "zed editor"

Competitive Landscape · Insight

Competes with 3 products. Closest competitor matsuoka.com shares 3 keywords at 22.6K/mo — competition intensity is low.

Report based on data from June 2026

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