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Who runs Instructables, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DIY project community alternatives.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Instructables

Instructables instructables.com

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

Wikidata: Internet community dedicated to DIY

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

02 · Privacy

What Instructables 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.

tracker that follows visitors

5 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

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Cookie banner
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US company
1 tool
  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Instructables

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

Fewer trackers than InstructablesNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Instructables match.

  1. 01
    Hackaday.io hackaday.io English 2 trackers

    Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community.

    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.

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  2. 02
    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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  3. 03
    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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  4. 04
    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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  5. 05
    SoFurry sofurry.com No trackers

    Explore - SoFurry

    Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.

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  6. 06
    Weasyl weasyl.com No trackers

    Home — Weasyl

    online art gallery

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  7. 07
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hot Questions - Stack Exchange

    Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.

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  8. 08
    Experts Exchange experts-exchange.com English 1 tracker

    Experts Exchange | Verified Solutions from Real Technology Experts

    Solve your toughest tech problems with expert-verified answers, not AI guesses. 30 years of trusted solutions from vetted professionals. Try it free.

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  9. 09
    Ravelry ravelry.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Ravelry

    Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.

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  10. 10
    perlmonks.org English No trackers

    Client Challenge

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  11. 11
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

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  12. 12
    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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  13. 13
    Cookpad cookpad.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Choose your Region - Cookpad

    Thousands of authentic recipes from around the world, recommended and tested by home cooks. Save your favourites and share your own on Cookpad.

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  14. 14

    Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor

    Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.

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  15. 15
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Tumblr

    Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.

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  16. 16
    Vocal vocal.media English 3 trackers

    Vocal

    Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.

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  17. 17
    SegmentFault 思否 segmentfault.com Chinese 2 trackers

    SegmentFault 思否

    SegmentFault 思否是中国专业的开发者技术社区。我们以技术问答、技术博客、技术课程、技术资讯为核心的产品形态,为开发者提供纯粹、高质的技术交流平台。

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  18. 18
    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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    Answers answers.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions

    Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want

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  20. 20
    cnblogs.com Top 10K Chinese 1 tracker

    博客园 - 开发者的网上家园

    博客园是一个面向开发者的知识分享社区。自创建以来,博客园一直致力并专注于为开发者打造一个纯净的技术交流社区,推动并帮助开发者通过互联网分享知识,从而让更多开发者从中受益。博客园的使命是帮助开发者用代码改变世界。

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Instructables’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Instructables uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Instructables 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 · 6 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,195
Vector
384-d
Query
48 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Instructables’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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