Hacker News Leaderboard
39 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2015. Last updated June 25, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2015)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 41 | 22,290 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Cloudflare | 32 | 4,665 | 2009 | public |
| 3 | Stripe | 12 | 3,229 | 2010 | Series H |
| 4 | GitLab | 11 | 1,982 | 2014 | public |
| 5 | JetBrains | 11 | 1,348 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 6 | Sourcegraph | 8 | 1,070 | 2013 | Series D |
| 7 | Twilio | 7 | 1,068 | 2008 | public |
| 8 | HashiCorp | 6 | 1,742 | 2012 | public |
| 9 | Confluent | 6 | 856 | 2014 | acquired |
| 10 | Cockroach Labs | 5 | 713 | 2015 | Series F |
| 11 | DigitalOcean | 4 | 1,016 | 2012 | public |
| 12 | Google Cloud | 4 | 967 | 1998 | public |
| 13 | Box | 4 | 469 | 2005 | public |
| 14 | Nylas | 3 | 840 | 2014 | Series C |
| 15 | CircleCI | 3 | 804 | 2011 | Series F |
| 16 | Mapbox | 3 | 179 | 2011 | Series E |
| 17 | Clearbit | 2 | 578 | 2015 | acquired |
| 18 | PagerDuty | 2 | 337 | 2009 | public |
| 19 | MongoDB | 2 | 272 | 2007 | public |
| 20 | Elastic | 2 | 261 | 2012 | public |
| 21 | Mixpanel | 2 | 161 | 2009 | Series C |
| 22 | Zapier | 2 | 132 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 23 | Pusher | 2 | 131 | 2010 | acquired |
| 24 | Ollama | 1 | 1,543 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 25 | OpenAI | 1 | 1,107 | 2015 | Series F |
| 26 | Algolia | 1 | 302 | 2012 | Series D |
| 27 | Metabase | 1 | 287 | 2014 | Series B |
| 28 | Crowdstrike | 1 | 236 | 2011 | public |
| 29 | Ngrok | 1 | 180 | 2015 | Series A |
| 30 | Detectify | 1 | 169 | 2013 | Series B |
| 31 | InfluxData | 1 | 124 | 2012 | Series E |
| 32 | Netlify | 1 | 116 | 2015 | Series D |
| 33 | ScyllaDB | 1 | 114 | 2013 | Series C |
| 34 | Ionic | 1 | 99 | 2012 | Series A |
| 35 | Hasura | 1 | 84 | 2017 | Series C |
| 36 | Neo4j | 1 | 76 | 2007 | Series F |
| 37 | Coder | 1 | 75 | 2017 | Series C |
| 38 | DataStax | 1 | 69 | 2010 | acquired |
| 39 | Redis | 1 | 62 | 2011 | Series G |
Individual Posts Points Leaderboard