Hacker News Leaderboard
45 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2016. Last updated November 7, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2016)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 65 | 40,172 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | GitLab | 31 | 8,280 | 2014 | public |
| 3 | Cloudflare | 25 | 4,315 | 2009 | public |
| 4 | Google Cloud | 18 | 3,059 | 1998 | public |
| 5 | OpenAI | 13 | 3,302 | 2015 | Series F |
| 6 | JetBrains | 11 | 2,049 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 7 | Stripe | 10 | 4,461 | 2010 | Series H |
| 8 | Cockroach Labs | 8 | 966 | 2015 | Series F |
| 9 | InfluxData | 7 | 718 | 2012 | Series E |
| 10 | Sourcegraph | 7 | 651 | 2013 | Series D |
| 11 | DigitalOcean | 6 | 668 | 2012 | public |
| 12 | Sysdig | 5 | 585 | 2013 | Series G |
| 13 | Deepgram | 4 | 646 | 2015 | Series C |
| 14 | HashiCorp | 4 | 524 | 2012 | public |
| 15 | Clearbit | 3 | 348 | 2015 | acquired |
| 16 | Neo4j | 3 | 281 | 2007 | Series F |
| 17 | LaunchDarkly | 3 | 187 | 2014 | Series D |
| 18 | CircleCI | 2 | 1,538 | 2011 | Series F |
| 19 | Sentry | 2 | 466 | 2011 | Series E |
| 20 | Zapier | 2 | 247 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 21 | Elastic | 2 | 189 | 2012 | public |
| 22 | ScyllaDB | 2 | 129 | 2013 | Series C |
| 23 | Confluent | 2 | 128 | 2014 | acquired |
| 24 | Detectify | 1 | 1,008 | 2013 | Series B |
| 25 | Twilio | 1 | 420 | 2008 | public |
| 26 | Netlify | 1 | 307 | 2015 | Series D |
| 27 | DataStax | 1 | 232 | 2010 | acquired |
| 28 | Stream | 1 | 161 | 2014 | Series B |
| 29 | Semaphore | 1 | 160 | 2009 | bootstrapped |
| 30 | Box | 1 | 157 | 2005 | public |
| 31 | Fastly | 1 | 149 | 2011 | public |
| 32 | Snyk | 1 | 139 | 2015 | Series F |
| 33 | Circle | 1 | 132 | 2013 | public |
| 34 | LogRocket | 1 | 111 | 2016 | Series B |
| 35 | Webflow | 1 | 109 | 2012 | Series C |
| 36 | Mapbox | 1 | 103 | 2011 | Series E |
| 37 | Rescale | 1 | 88 | 2011 | Series D |
| 38 | Astronomer | 1 | 81 | 2018 | Series D |
| 39 | Plaid | 1 | 75 | 2013 | Series E |
| 40 | Datadog | 1 | 75 | 2010 | public |
| 41 | Ionic | 1 | 75 | 2012 | Series A |
| 42 | Aiven | 1 | 72 | 2016 | Series D |
| 43 | Contentful | 1 | 65 | 2013 | acquired |
| 44 | Mixpanel | 1 | 57 | 2009 | Series C |
| 45 | Mux | 1 | 57 | 2015 | Series D |
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