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

Top 10K · #3,892 English 12 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Hackaday

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

GizmodoHabrSlashdotArs TechnicaThe VergePCWorldLifehackerEngadgetTom's HardwareXDA Developers

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Hackaday

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Hackaday, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English

    XDA

    The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.

  2. 02
    Tom's Hardware tomshardware.com Top 10K English

    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..

  3. 03
    Engadget engadget.com Top 10K English

    Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews

    Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.

  4. 04
    Lifehacker lifehacker.com Top 10K English

    Lifehacker | Do everything better

    Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

  5. 05
    PCWorld pcworld.com Top 10K English

    PCWorld

    PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.

  6. 06
    The Verge theverge.com Top 1K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Ars Technica arstechnica.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    The Register theregister.com Top 10K English

    Technology news and analysis | The Register

    All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register

  9. 09
    Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English

    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.

  10. 10
    BleepingComputer bleepingcomputer.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

  12. 12
    Popular Mechanics popularmechanics.com Top 10K English

    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.

  13. 13
    Gizmodo gizmodo.com Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English

    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.

  15. 15
    heise online heise.de Top 10K English

    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.

  16. 16
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    Fast Company fastcompany.com Top 10K English

    fastcompany.com

    American magazine

  18. 18
    How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English

    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.

  19. 19
    Schneier counterpane.com Top 10K English

    Schneier on Security -

  20. 20
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

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.

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  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
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  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:mailgun.org include:serve…
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  • 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

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