Hackaday

Hackaday is a hardware hacking website.[5] It was founded in 2004 as a web magazine.

Hackaday
Type of site
Weblog
Available inEnglish
OwnerSupplyframe Inc.[1]
EditorMike Szczys[2]
URLhackaday.com
Alexa rank 12,601 (July 2020)[3]
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedSeptember 2004[4]
Current statusOnline

History

Hackaday was founded in 2004 as a web magazine for Engadget devoted to publishing and archiving "the best hacks, mods and DIY (do it yourself) projects from around web".[4] Hackaday has since split from Engadget and its former parent company Weblogs, Inc..[6] In 2007 Computerworld magazine ranked Hackaday #10 on their list of the top 15 geek blog sites.[7]

Hackaday.io started as a project hosting site in 2014[8] under the name of Hackaday Projects.[9] It has now grown into a social network of 100,000 members[10]

In 2015, Hackaday their owner Supplyframe acquired hardware marketplace Tindie.[11]

gollark: I think the updater only needs to hash the manifest to check for version changes now.
gollark: .
gollark: It has boot times in the seconds in a high-performance emulator for no discernible reason
gollark: PotatOS uses *two* bizarre custom dubiously secure ECC libraries for a few things.
gollark: As long as it can do HTTP(S), websockets, persistent storage in significant quantities, various cryptographic algorithms, ridiculous amounts of memory use, and Lua execution, it can technically run potatOS.

References
  1. "Hello from SupplyFrame – your new evil overlords!". Hackaday.com. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  2. "Mike Szczys's Profile". hackaday.io. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  3. "Hackaday site ranks". Alexa Internet. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  4. Phillip Torrone (October 2004). "Introducing Hack A Day, the gadget hack archive". Engadget. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  5. Constantin, Lucian (2015-03-13). "Here's a USB flash drive that could fry your laptop". Computerworld. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  6. By (2010-07-12). "A Letter From Jason Calacanis, The Owner Of Hack A Day". Hackaday. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  7. Computerworld staff (1 May 2007). "Top 15 geek blog sites". Computerworld. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  8. "Project Community Profile: Hackaday.io | Make:". Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers. 2020-05-09. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  9. "Introducing: Hackaday Projects". Hackaday. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  10. "HACKADAY.IO JUST PASSED 100,000 MEMBERS". Hackaday. Retrieved 3 Dec 2015.
  11. By (2015-08-05). "Tindie Becomes A Part Of The Hackaday Family". Hackaday. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
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