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: To execute it, state must be stored !!IN MEMORY!!!
gollark: What if ODromedaryCamel?
gollark: ⭕ 🐫
gollark: Rust? Nim?
gollark: OCaml?

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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