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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.
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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
Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers |
Make: celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.
Very close - 03
product discovery website
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close - 05
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 - 06
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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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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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.
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GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close - 12
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.
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Minecraft Internet forum and fansite
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website
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Japanese online artist community
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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 - 20
Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!
Close
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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 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