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Instructables
Who runs Instructables, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DIY project community alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Hackster
Measured from Instructables’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Instructables01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- 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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Instructables match.
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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.
Very close - 02
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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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.
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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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.
Very close - 07
Ravelry
Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.
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photo sharing website
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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.
Very close - 11
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.
Very close - 12
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
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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 - 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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Steam Community
Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
Close - 16
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Close - 17
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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Wallpaper Cave
Wallpaper community sharing hundreds of cool wallpapers daily! Free downloads - More than 7 million wallpapers!
Close - 19
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close - 20
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Tealium page source: tags.tiqcdn.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 1In9En3Y79CPoCOaaatHSHCzS7k1WenAR88cI5iYdfYsDcxW4FCWsg==
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX instructables-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1163.awsdns-17.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=aJwf2CzmW8LrvqB3rvJz3QIA7ogz4xXhPS94jzaMpNw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=j8ezjcbwhfykmj7wqvqpe34zrx81wy
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on instructables.com 17/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on instructables.com 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on instructables.com 10/20
- SendGrid · not on instructables.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on instructables.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on instructables.com 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on instructables.com 3/20
- Mailgun · not on instructables.com 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on instructables.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 3/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on instructables.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on instructables.com 3/20
- React · not on instructables.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on instructables.com 3/20