Trying to avoid predictable holiday gifts? This guide has some great alternatives

With the holidays just around the corner, the biggest challenge at this point is not simply to pick out gifts for your loved ones, but to find ones someone else hasn’t already bought for them.

But the fine folks over at Massdrop have you covered with their Expert’s Guide to Gift-Giving.

Massdrop empowers communities of enthusiasts around everything from audio equipment to cooking, enabling them to connect with each other, discuss their favorite products, and get discounts through their collective buying power. It’s a bit like Product Hunt, with Groupon-like capabilities.

To assemble the guide below, Massdrop’s buyers — employees in charge of specific communities — looked through all the top-rated and most loved products on the site, and after much number crunching and deliberation, they came up with some gift suggestions that are sure to differentiate you from the herd this holiday season.