Hacker News Leaderboard
49 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2018. Last updated August 8, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2018)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 71 | 44,474 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Google Cloud | 38 | 8,172 | 1998 | public |
| 3 | Cloudflare | 32 | 8,865 | 2009 | public |
| 4 | OpenAI | 26 | 5,495 | 2015 | Series F |
| 5 | GitLab | 22 | 5,735 | 2014 | public |
| 6 | Stripe | 21 | 8,123 | 2010 | Series H |
| 7 | Cockroach Labs | 12 | 2,344 | 2015 | Series F |
| 8 | Sourcegraph | 12 | 2,167 | 2013 | Series D |
| 9 | DigitalOcean | 8 | 1,151 | 2012 | public |
| 10 | Hasura | 6 | 559 | 2017 | Series C |
| 11 | Twilio | 5 | 1,414 | 2008 | public |
| 12 | HashiCorp | 5 | 825 | 2012 | public |
| 13 | Tiger Data | 5 | 581 | 2015 | Series C |
| 14 | Plaid | 5 | 528 | 2013 | Series E |
| 15 | InfluxData | 4 | 979 | 2012 | Series E |
| 16 | Algolia | 4 | 824 | 2012 | Series D |
| 17 | JetBrains | 4 | 686 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 18 | PagerDuty | 3 | 733 | 2009 | public |
| 19 | LogRocket | 3 | 670 | 2016 | Series B |
| 20 | Netlify | 2 | 459 | 2015 | Series D |
| 21 | Stoplight | 2 | 428 | 2015 | Series A |
| 22 | Elastic | 2 | 259 | 2012 | public |
| 23 | Kong | 2 | 228 | 2017 | Series E |
| 24 | Mixpanel | 2 | 227 | 2009 | Series C |
| 25 | Sysdig | 2 | 171 | 2013 | Series G |
| 26 | ScyllaDB | 2 | 168 | 2013 | Series C |
| 27 | Tabnine | 1 | 607 | 2017 | acquired |
| 28 | Stream | 1 | 555 | 2014 | Series B |
| 29 | Fastly | 1 | 451 | 2011 | public |
| 30 | Tyk | 1 | 323 | 2015 | Series B |
| 31 | Fly.io | 1 | 154 | 2016 | Series C |
| 32 | Ory | 1 | 149 | 2019 | Series A |
| 33 | Apollo | 1 | 145 | 2016 | Series D |
| 34 | Mux | 1 | 124 | 2015 | Series D |
| 35 | Gel Data | 1 | 116 | 2019 | Series A |
| 36 | AssemblyAI | 1 | 107 | 2017 | Series C |
| 37 | TestMu AI | 1 | 102 | 2017 | Series D |
| 38 | Snyk | 1 | 94 | 2015 | Series F |
| 39 | Sentry | 1 | 93 | 2011 | Series E |
| 40 | Fivetran | 1 | 93 | 2012 | Series D |
| 41 | MongoDB | 1 | 82 | 2007 | public |
| 42 | Honeycomb | 1 | 79 | 2016 | Series D |
| 43 | Nanonets | 1 | 76 | 2017 | Series B |
| 44 | Webflow | 1 | 65 | 2012 | Series C |
| 45 | LaunchDarkly | 1 | 64 | 2014 | Series D |
| 46 | Luciq | 1 | 60 | 2014 | Series B |
| 47 | Confluent | 1 | 57 | 2014 | acquired |
| 48 | Zapier | 1 | 54 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 49 | CircleCI | 1 | 52 | 2011 | Series F |
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