Hacker News Leaderboard
60 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2019. Last updated August 8, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2019)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 105 | 63,855 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Cloudflare | 42 | 12,023 | 2009 | public |
| 3 | GitLab | 22 | 3,906 | 2014 | public |
| 4 | OpenAI | 17 | 4,460 | 2015 | Series F |
| 5 | Netlify | 17 | 3,594 | 2015 | Series D |
| 6 | Google Cloud | 17 | 2,992 | 1998 | public |
| 7 | Cockroach Labs | 13 | 2,540 | 2015 | Series F |
| 8 | Stripe | 10 | 4,353 | 2010 | Series H |
| 9 | CircleCI | 7 | 1,403 | 2011 | Series F |
| 10 | Twilio | 6 | 2,283 | 2008 | public |
| 11 | DigitalOcean | 6 | 1,329 | 2012 | public |
| 12 | Nanonets | 6 | 784 | 2017 | Series B |
| 13 | Plaid | 6 | 784 | 2013 | Series E |
| 14 | Checkly | 5 | 1,118 | 2018 | Series B |
| 15 | Elastic | 5 | 838 | 2012 | public |
| 16 | Confluent | 5 | 374 | 2014 | acquired |
| 17 | Fastly | 4 | 914 | 2011 | public |
| 18 | Tiger Data | 4 | 688 | 2015 | Series C |
| 19 | Mux | 4 | 625 | 2015 | Series D |
| 20 | LogRocket | 4 | 552 | 2016 | Series B |
| 21 | Snyk | 3 | 968 | 2015 | Series F |
| 22 | Yugabyte | 3 | 431 | 2016 | Series C |
| 23 | Mixpanel | 3 | 370 | 2009 | Series C |
| 24 | Apollo | 3 | 259 | 2016 | Series D |
| 25 | Gel Data | 2 | 848 | 2019 | Series A |
| 26 | Grafana Labs | 2 | 469 | 2014 | Series D |
| 27 | ScyllaDB | 2 | 461 | 2013 | Series C |
| 28 | Sentry | 2 | 448 | 2011 | Series E |
| 29 | Pipedream | 2 | 396 | 2019 | Series A |
| 30 | Gremlin | 2 | 359 | 2016 | Series B |
| 31 | HashiCorp | 2 | 350 | 2012 | public |
| 32 | Mapbox | 2 | 274 | 2011 | Series E |
| 33 | JetBrains | 2 | 220 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 34 | Sysdig | 2 | 204 | 2013 | Series G |
| 35 | n8n | 1 | 728 | 2019 | Series C |
| 36 | Neo4j | 1 | 290 | 2007 | Series F |
| 37 | PagerDuty | 1 | 246 | 2009 | public |
| 38 | Detectify | 1 | 240 | 2013 | Series B |
| 39 | Honeycomb | 1 | 218 | 2016 | Series D |
| 40 | Hugging Face | 1 | 211 | 2016 | Series D |
| 41 | Daily | 1 | 180 | 2016 | Series B |
| 42 | Couchbase | 1 | 166 | 2009 | Series G |
| 43 | Tabnine | 1 | 162 | 2017 | acquired |
| 44 | Retool | 1 | 144 | 2017 | Series C |
| 45 | Datadome | 1 | 142 | 2015 | Series C |
| 46 | Zapier | 1 | 140 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 47 | Algolia | 1 | 130 | 2012 | Series D |
| 48 | InfluxData | 1 | 119 | 2012 | Series E |
| 49 | Tailscale | 1 | 104 | 2019 | Series C |
| 50 | Octopus Deploy | 1 | 94 | 2012 | Series A |
| 51 | Comet | 1 | 93 | 2017 | Series B |
| 52 | Hasura | 1 | 89 | 2017 | Series C |
| 53 | Sanity | 1 | 84 | 2018 | Series C |
| 54 | Pulumi | 1 | 82 | 2017 | Series C |
| 55 | Replicated | 1 | 79 | 2015 | Series C |
| 56 | Heap | 1 | 69 | 2013 | acquired |
| 57 | Contentful | 1 | 64 | 2013 | acquired |
| 58 | Coder | 1 | 60 | 2017 | Series C |
| 59 | Dataiku | 1 | 58 | 2013 | Series F |
| 60 | Kong | 1 | 53 | 2017 | Series E |
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