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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
None found
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
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hot Questions - Stack Exchange

    Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.

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  6. 06
    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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  7. 07
    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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  8. 08
    perlmonks.org English No trackers

    Client Challenge

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  9. 09
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

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  10. 10
    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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    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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  12. 12
    Vocal vocal.media English 3 trackers

    Vocal

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

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  13. 13
    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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  14. 14
    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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  15. 15
    Steam Community steamcommunity.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Steam Community

    Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.

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  16. 16
    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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  17. 17
    Houzz houzz.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Houzz for Pros and Homeowners | Build and Design Software | Try Free for 30 Days

    Houzz has powerful software for construction and design professionals. For homeowners, find inspiration, products, and pros to design your dream home.

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  18. 18
    Wallpaper Cave wallpapercave.com English No trackers

    Wallpaper Cave

    Wallpaper community sharing hundreds of cool wallpapers daily! Free downloads - More than 7 million wallpapers!

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  19. 19
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English No trackers

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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  20. 20
    FC2 fc2.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -

    FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.

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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
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
29 ms

Competitor map

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