hackaday.io

Hackaday.io

Who runs Hackaday.io, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest maker community alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
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Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
Hackster

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Hackaday.io

Hackaday.io hackaday.io

Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.

Wikidata: Online hardware development community where makers can collaborate to create projects and research existing projects

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Hackaday.io tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

11 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
4 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Hackaday.io

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Hackaday.io, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than Hackaday.ioNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Hackster hackster.io

    hacker/maker social network

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  2. 02
    Instructables instructables.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Yours for the making

    Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!

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  3. 03
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English 1 tracker

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

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  4. 04
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

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  5. 05
    makezine.com English 1 tracker

    Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers |

    Make: celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.

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  6. 06
    Indie Hackers indiehackers.com

    podcast

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  7. 07
    java.net Top 10K

    defunct Java technology related community website with a web-based source code repository for Java projects

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  8. 08
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

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    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

    DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.

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    Meetup meetup.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You

    Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.

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  11. 11
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

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  12. 12
    Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com Top 1K English

    website for professional and enthusiast programmers

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  13. 13
    OSChina oschina.net Chinese 1 tracker

    OSCHINA - 开源 × AI · 开发者生态社区

    OSCHINA.NET 是面向开发者的开源与 AI 生态社区。我们倡导开源协作,以内容为核心,并以 AI 提升知识的获取与创作效率,围绕智库、造物与交流形成实践闭环,让开发者在同一生态中发现项目、应用方案并与社区共建。

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  14. 14
    CSDN csdn.net Top 10K

    network of software developers in China

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  15. 15
    TerraCaching terracaching.com English 1 tracker

    TerraCaching

    A growing group of innovative geocaching enthusiasts focused on creating quality experiences. Offer sponsorship to other members, create new caches, approve your sponsoree’s caches, view the status of your submitted caches, and edit your drafts. The TerraCaching Toolkit contains most of your functional needs.

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  16. 16
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

    Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games

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  17. 17
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

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  18. 18
    Freelancer freelancer.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer

    Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.

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  19. 19
    clien.net Korean 2 trackers

    클리앙

    모두의 커뮤니티 클리앙

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  20. 20
    Guilded guilded.gg English No trackers

    Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities

    Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hackaday.io adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
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Sites searched
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Vector
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Query
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Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Hackaday.io’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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