Hacker News Leaderboard
46 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2017. Last updated September 24, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2017)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 51 | 31,529 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Google Cloud | 29 | 6,347 | 1998 | public |
| 3 | OpenAI | 22 | 5,357 | 2015 | Series F |
| 4 | Cloudflare | 22 | 4,470 | 2009 | public |
| 5 | Stripe | 21 | 6,096 | 2010 | Series H |
| 6 | GitLab | 18 | 3,924 | 2014 | public |
| 7 | Cockroach Labs | 11 | 2,000 | 2015 | Series F |
| 8 | JetBrains | 11 | 1,474 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 9 | DigitalOcean | 10 | 1,253 | 2012 | public |
| 10 | Twilio | 9 | 2,762 | 2008 | public |
| 11 | Fly.io | 7 | 1,039 | 2016 | Series C |
| 12 | Netlify | 7 | 827 | 2015 | Series D |
| 13 | Snyk | 6 | 815 | 2015 | Series F |
| 14 | Confluent | 5 | 1,410 | 2014 | acquired |
| 15 | Zapier | 5 | 1,222 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 16 | Tiger Data | 4 | 1,589 | 2015 | Series C |
| 17 | CircleCI | 4 | 833 | 2011 | Series F |
| 18 | HashiCorp | 4 | 723 | 2012 | public |
| 19 | Sourcegraph | 4 | 679 | 2013 | Series D |
| 20 | Algolia | 3 | 597 | 2012 | Series D |
| 21 | Semaphore | 3 | 307 | 2009 | bootstrapped |
| 22 | Mapbox | 2 | 1,087 | 2011 | Series E |
| 23 | Nylas | 2 | 459 | 2014 | Series C |
| 24 | Sysdig | 2 | 395 | 2013 | Series G |
| 25 | ScyllaDB | 2 | 344 | 2013 | Series C |
| 26 | Ionic | 2 | 205 | 2012 | Series A |
| 27 | Pusher | 2 | 167 | 2010 | acquired |
| 28 | LogRocket | 2 | 139 | 2016 | Series B |
| 29 | Vespa | 2 | 132 | 2023 | Series A |
| 30 | Detectify | 1 | 343 | 2013 | Series B |
| 31 | Sentry | 1 | 302 | 2011 | Series E |
| 32 | Stream | 1 | 279 | 2014 | Series B |
| 33 | Box | 1 | 246 | 2005 | public |
| 34 | Kong | 1 | 196 | 2017 | Series E |
| 35 | Elastic | 1 | 192 | 2012 | public |
| 36 | PagerDuty | 1 | 182 | 2009 | public |
| 37 | Firebase | 1 | 138 | 2011 | acquired |
| 38 | Fivetran | 1 | 137 | 2012 | Series D |
| 39 | MongoDB | 1 | 113 | 2007 | public |
| 40 | Deepgram | 1 | 103 | 2015 | Series C |
| 41 | InfluxData | 1 | 101 | 2012 | Series E |
| 42 | Sanity | 1 | 90 | 2018 | Series C |
| 43 | Webflow | 1 | 83 | 2012 | Series C |
| 44 | Mux | 1 | 81 | 2015 | Series D |
| 45 | Honeycomb | 1 | 80 | 2016 | Series D |
| 46 | Astronomer | 1 | 70 | 2018 | Series D |
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