Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Instructables
The 20 closest DIY project community alternatives to Instructables, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Instructables? The closest matches are Product Hunt, allrecipes.com and DEV Community. 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 Instructables
Instructables instructables.com
Yours for the making
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
Summary by Claude
A community website where users publish and browse step-by-step do-it-yourself project guides with photos, covering electronics, woodworking, cooking, crafts and more, with comments and contests.
- Who it’s for
- DIY hobbyists, makers, and educators
- Business model
- Advertising and premium memberships
02 · Embedding space
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). 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 Instructables
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Instructables, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.920 - 02
Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
Very close cos 0.909 - 03
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.909 - 04
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 cos 0.906 - 05
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close cos 0.903 - 06
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.904 - 07 Very close cos 0.900
- 08
promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Very close cos 0.899 - 09
iFixit: The Free Repair Manual
iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Let's fix the world, one device at a time. Troubleshoot with experts in the Answers forum—and build your own how-to guides to share with the world. Fix your Apple and Android devices—and buy all the parts and tools needed for your DIY repair projects.
Very close cos 0.897 - 10
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.
Very close cos 0.902 - 11
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.900 - 12
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close cos 0.899 - 13
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.901 - 14
Ravelry
Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.
Close cos 0.894 - 15
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.897 - 16
photo sharing website
Very close cos 0.896 - 17
Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!
Close cos 0.894 - 18 Close cos 0.893
- 19
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.
Very close cos 0.896 - 20
Canva
online graphic design platform
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to instructables.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Instructables uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Instructables is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Instructables adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on instructables.com 17/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on instructables.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on instructables.com 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on instructables.com 8/20
- SendGrid · not on instructables.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on instructables.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on instructables.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on instructables.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on instructables.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on instructables.com 5/20
- OneTrust · not on instructables.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on instructables.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront 4/20
- nginx · not on instructables.com 4/20