Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Hackaday
The 20 closest maker technology blog alternatives to Hackaday, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Hackaday? The closest matches are XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware and Engadget. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Hackaday
Hackaday hackaday.com
Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day
Fresh hacks every day
Wikidata: blog on hardware and software hacks
Summary by Claude
Hackaday is an online publication posting daily articles about hardware hacks, electronics projects, retro computing, and security news, along with a podcast and the annual Supercon hardware conference.
- Who it’s for
- Electronics hobbyists, makers, and engineers
- Business model
- Advertising and sponsorships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Hackaday’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Hackaday
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Hackaday, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
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Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
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The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
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Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
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Technology news and analysis | The Register
All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
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BleepingComputer | Cybersecurity, Technology News and Support
BleepingComputer is a premier destination for cybersecurity news for over 20 years, delivering breaking stories on the latest hacks, malware threats, and how to protect your devices.
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
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MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
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heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online
News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.
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GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal
Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.
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fastcompany.com
American magazine
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How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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Schneier on Security -
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
American software company
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to hackaday.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Hackaday uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Hackaday is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/mpm6gph.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp page source: list-manage.com
- Cookie consent
- Usercentrics page source: web.cmp.usercentrics.eu
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:mailgun.org include:serve…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: dQIcgy2eQ8-zyE6l15aOsCdxiVDUKl84C_zi-lJivYE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ie1lkz19o2lsbploq4owagf1snbzsy
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_cuY_AVoeSBi4AAVJQvMu-A
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hackaday adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on hackaday.com 9/20
- Google Analytics 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on hackaday.com 8/20
- nginx 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on hackaday.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on hackaday.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on hackaday.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on hackaday.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on hackaday.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on hackaday.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on hackaday.com 4/20