Leaderboard Changes
Hacker News hits 50+ movement from 2025 to 2026 so far.
377
Companies Compared
87
Risers and New
143
Fallers and Dropped
-104
Shown Net Change
All by Hits 50+
Hacker News Companies
| Company | Status | 2025 | 2026 so far | Change | % Change | From Rank | To Rank | Rank Change | Stage | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Faller | 138 | 102 | -36 | -26.1% | #1 | #1 | 0 | acquired | 2008 |
| Google Cloud | Faller | 23 | 12 | -11 | -47.8% | #5 | #8 | -3 | -- | 1998 |
| Fly.io | Faller | 11 | 2 | -9 | -81.8% | #11 | #32 | -21 | C | 2016 |
| JetBrains | Dropped | 8 | 0 | -8 | -100.0% | #14 | #184 | -170 | bootstrapped | 2000 |
| Zed | Faller | 17 | 9 | -8 | -47.1% | #8 | #12 | -4 | B | 2021 |
| ClickHouse | Faller | 14 | 7 | -7 | -50.0% | #9 | #13 | -4 | D | 2021 |
| OpenRouter | Riser | 3 | 10 | +7 | +233.3% | #27 | #9 | +18 | acquired | 2023 |
| Anthropic | Riser | 62 | 67 | +5 | +8.1% | #3 | #2 | +1 | H | 2021 |
| Hugging Face | Faller | 21 | 16 | -5 | -23.8% | #6 | #5 | +1 | D | 2016 |
| Ollama | Faller | 7 | 2 | -5 | -71.4% | #15 | #37 | -22 | pre-seed | 2023 |
| Lago | Dropped | 4 | 0 | -4 | -100.0% | #19 | #189 | -170 | A | 2021 |
| OpenAI | Faller | 71 | 67 | -4 | -5.6% | #2 | #3 | -1 | F | 2015 |
| Polar Signals | Dropped | 4 | 0 | -4 | -100.0% | #20 | #229 | -209 | acquired | 2020 |
| Qodo | Faller | 5 | 1 | -4 | -80.0% | #16 | #70 | -54 | B | 2022 |
| ElevenLabs | Dropped | 3 | 0 | -3 | -100.0% | #25 | #152 | -127 | C | 2022 |
| Inngest | New | 0 | 3 | +3 | -- | #208 | #22 | +186 | seed | 2021 |
| Modular | Riser | 1 | 4 | +3 | +300.0% | #82 | #17 | +65 | B | 2022 |
| MongoDB | Dropped | 3 | 0 | -3 | -100.0% | #26 | #205 | -179 | -- | 2007 |
| Nanoclaw | New | 0 | 3 | +3 | -- | -- | #24 | -- | seed | 2023 |
| Ngrok | New | 0 | 3 | +3 | -- | #239 | #25 | +214 | A | 2015 |
| Railway | Riser | 2 | 5 | +3 | +150.0% | #40 | #16 | +24 | B | 2020 |
| Roboflow | New | 0 | 3 | +3 | -- | #282 | #27 | +255 | B | 2020 |
| Stripe | New | 0 | 3 | +3 | -- | #302 | #28 | +274 | H | 2010 |
| Stytch | Dropped | 3 | 0 | -3 | -100.0% | #28 | -- | -- | B | 2020 |
| Supabase | Dropped | 3 | 0 | -3 | -100.0% | #29 | #273 | -244 | F | 2020 |
| TigerBeetle | Dropped | 3 | 0 | -3 | -100.0% | #30 | #281 | -251 | A | 2022 |
| Blacksmith | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #31 | #109 | -78 | B | 2024 |
| Chroma | Faller | 3 | 1 | -2 | -66.7% | #23 | #49 | -26 | seed | 2022 |
| Cloudflare | Faller | 42 | 40 | -2 | -4.8% | #4 | #4 | 0 | -- | 2009 |
| Coder | New | 0 | 2 | +2 | -- | #150 | #29 | +121 | C | 2017 |
| Dash0 | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #32 | #135 | -103 | B | 2023 |
| Entire | New | 0 | 2 | +2 | -- | -- | #31 | -- | seed | 2026 |
| exe.dev | Riser | 1 | 3 | +2 | +200.0% | #67 | #20 | +47 | A | 2025 |
| JFrog | New | 0 | 2 | +2 | -- | -- | #34 | -- | -- | 2008 |
| Lovable | New | 0 | 2 | +2 | -- | #226 | #35 | +191 | C | 2023 |
| Mergify | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #35 | #202 | -167 | pre-seed | 2018 |
| Mintlify | New | 0 | 2 | +2 | -- | #231 | #36 | +195 | B | 2022 |
| Mistral AI | Faller | 17 | 15 | -2 | -11.8% | #7 | #6 | +1 | D | 2023 |
| Modal | Riser | 1 | 3 | +2 | +200.0% | #81 | #23 | +58 | C | 2021 |
| n8n | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #36 | #209 | -173 | C | 2019 |
| OpenPipe | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #38 | -- | -- | seed | 2023 |
| Restate | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #41 | #248 | -207 | seed | 2023 |
| Sanity | Dropped | 2 | 0 | -2 | -100.0% | #42 | #256 | -214 | C | 2018 |
| Socket | Riser | 2 | 4 | +2 | +100.0% | #44 | #18 | +26 | C | 2020 |
| Unsloth | Riser | 4 | 6 | +2 | +50.0% | #22 | #14 | +8 | pre-seed | 2023 |
| Aiven | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #48 | #88 | -40 | D | 2016 |
| Axiom | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #50 | #102 | -52 | seed | 2020 |
| Box | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #137 | #45 | +92 | -- | 2005 |
| Braintrust | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #52 | #112 | -60 | B | 2023 |
| Browserbase | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #138 | #46 | +92 | B | 2024 |
| BuildBuddy | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | -- | #47 | -- | seed | 2019 |
| Cartesia | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #53 | #114 | -61 | A | 2023 |
| Carto | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #54 | #115 | -61 | C | 2012 |
| Cerebrium | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #143 | #48 | +95 | seed | 2022 |
| Cline | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #55 | #122 | -67 | A | 2024 |
| Cohere | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #58 | #124 | -66 | F | 2019 |
| Comfy | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #152 | #52 | +100 | B | 2024 |
| Confluent | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #59 | #126 | -67 | acquired | 2014 |
| Cursor | Faller | 13 | 12 | -1 | -7.7% | #10 | #7 | +3 | B | 2023 |
| Dagger | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #60 | #133 | -73 | A | 2018 |
| Daily | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #162 | #53 | +109 | B | 2016 |
| Datadog | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #61 | #136 | -75 | -- | 2010 |
| dbt | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #62 | #140 | -78 | D | 2016 |
| DigitalOcean | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #63 | #144 | -81 | -- | 2012 |
| Ditto | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #64 | #146 | -82 | B | 2018 |
| Earthly | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #65 | -- | -- | seed | 2020 |
| Eden AI | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | -- | #54 | -- | pre-seed | 2021 |
| Elastic | Riser | 1 | 2 | +1 | +100.0% | #66 | #30 | +36 | -- | 2012 |
| Endor Labs | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #178 | #55 | +123 | B | 2021 |
| Factory | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #68 | #158 | -90 | D | 2023 |
| Fastly | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #69 | #161 | -92 | -- | 2011 |
| Fingerprint | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #186 | #56 | +130 | C | 2019 |
| Fireworks AI | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #189 | #57 | +132 | D | 2022 |
| Flightcontrol | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #71 | -- | -- | pre-seed | 2021 |
| Freestyle | Riser | 1 | 2 | +1 | +100.0% | #72 | #33 | +39 | seed | 2024 |
| GitLab | Faller | 2 | 1 | -1 | -50.0% | #33 | #59 | -26 | -- | 2014 |
| Grafana Labs | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #73 | #173 | -100 | D | 2014 |
| Greptile | Riser | 4 | 5 | +1 | +25.0% | #17 | #15 | +2 | A | 2021 |
| Hatchet | Faller | 4 | 3 | -1 | -25.0% | #18 | #21 | -3 | pre-seed | 2023 |
| Honeycomb | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #74 | #180 | -106 | D | 2016 |
| Humanloop | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #75 | -- | -- | seed | 2020 |
| Hume | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #203 | #60 | +143 | B | 2021 |
| Inference | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #76 | -- | -- | seed | 2023 |
| Infisical | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #205 | #61 | +144 | A | 2022 |
| Infracost | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #207 | #62 | +145 | seed | 2020 |
| LangChain | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #77 | #192 | -115 | B | 2022 |
| Linear | Faller | 2 | 1 | -1 | -50.0% | #34 | #63 | -29 | C | 2019 |
| Memgraph | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #78 | #201 | -123 | seed | 2016 |
| Metabase | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #230 | #64 | +166 | B | 2014 |
| Mixpanel | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #80 | #203 | -123 | C | 2009 |
| Momento | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #83 | -- | -- | seed | 2021 |
| Nango | New | 0 | 1 | +1 | -- | #234 | #66 | +168 | pre-seed | 2022 |
| Neon | Faller | 2 | 1 | -1 | -50.0% | #37 | #68 | -31 | acquired | 2021 |
| Octopus Deploy | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #86 | -- | -- | A | 2012 |
| Ory | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #87 | #218 | -131 | A | 2019 |
| Parallel Web Systems | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #88 | #223 | -135 | B | 2023 |
| PlanetScale | Riser | 9 | 10 | +1 | +11.1% | #13 | #10 | +3 | C | 2018 |
| PostHog | Faller | 4 | 3 | -1 | -25.0% | #21 | #26 | -5 | D | 2020 |
| Prime Intellect | Riser | 1 | 2 | +1 | +100.0% | #89 | #38 | +51 | A | 2024 |
| Promptfoo | Dropped | 1 | 0 | -1 | -100.0% | #90 | #235 | -145 | acquired | 2024 |