hackster.io

Hackster

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

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers: Couldn’t check
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Hackaday.io

Measured from Hackster’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Hackster

Hackster hackster.io

Wikidata: hacker/maker social network

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive

02 · Privacy

What Hackster tracks

We couldn’t read hackster.io’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so we can’t say what it loads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Hackster

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Hackster match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hackster 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 and search numbers · 5 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,199
Vector: 384-d
Query: 35 ms

Built with

Marketing automation: Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailg…
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailg…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS asa.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=-F7QW1gbslMOHSCHrGzTeXrHnR6GCzLBtrCa7DEmOcY

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.