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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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Hackster

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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

18 of the 60 sites closest to Instructables match.

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    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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  2. 02
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hot Questions - Stack Exchange

    Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.

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  3. 03
    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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  4. 04
    perlmonks.org English No trackers

    Client Challenge

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  5. 05
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English No trackers

    photo sharing website

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    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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  7. 07
    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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  8. 08
    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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  9. 09
    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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  10. 10
    AniList anilist.co English No trackers

    AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga

    Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!

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    Comick comick.io English No trackers

    Comick has a new home — comick.dev

    Comick.io is now Comick.dev: your manga and anime tracker, database, and community. Discover our next chapter.

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    Jason Kottke kottke.org English No trackers

    kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

    Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

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  13. 13
    Cargo cargo.site English No trackers

    Cargo

    Site builder for designers and artists

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  14. 14
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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    Patreon patreon.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon

    Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!

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  16. 16
    Food.com food.com English No trackers

    Food.com - Recipes, Food Ideas and Videos

    Food.com has a massive collection of recipes that are submitted, rated and reviewed by people who are passionate about food. From international cuisines to quick and easy meal ideas, Food.com is where you can find what you're craving.

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    Carbonmade carbonmade.com English No trackers

    Carbonmade - Your Online Portfolio

    Carbonmade helps you show off your work and get discovered. Perfect for photographers, illustrators, motion designers, graphic designers, copywriters or anyone else who creates. NO coding needed, fully customizable layouts with everything included.

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    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

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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
9,208
Vector
384-d
Query
55 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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