Hacker News Leaderboard
65 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2020. Last updated September 24, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2020)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 140 | 86,465 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Cloudflare | 39 | 8,666 | 2009 | public |
| 3 | GitLab | 24 | 4,709 | 2014 | public |
| 4 | JetBrains | 14 | 2,589 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 5 | Stripe | 13 | 3,505 | 2010 | Series H |
| 6 | Cockroach Labs | 9 | 1,327 | 2015 | Series F |
| 7 | OpenAI | 6 | 1,762 | 2015 | Series F |
| 8 | Google Cloud | 6 | 1,697 | 1998 | public |
| 9 | Tiger Data | 5 | 1,624 | 2015 | Series C |
| 10 | Twilio | 5 | 1,345 | 2008 | public |
| 11 | Grafana Labs | 5 | 1,035 | 2014 | Series D |
| 12 | Netlify | 5 | 565 | 2015 | Series D |
| 13 | Fly.io | 4 | 614 | 2016 | Series C |
| 14 | LogRocket | 4 | 487 | 2016 | Series B |
| 15 | Snyk | 4 | 483 | 2015 | Series F |
| 16 | HashiCorp | 3 | 1,248 | 2012 | public |
| 17 | DigitalOcean | 3 | 1,084 | 2012 | public |
| 18 | Tailscale | 3 | 644 | 2019 | Series C |
| 19 | QuestDB | 3 | 567 | 2019 | Series A |
| 20 | Elastic | 3 | 393 | 2012 | public |
| 21 | Algolia | 3 | 329 | 2012 | Series D |
| 22 | Vercel | 2 | 675 | 2015 | Series F |
| 23 | Pulumi | 2 | 435 | 2017 | Series C |
| 24 | Datadog | 2 | 334 | 2010 | public |
| 25 | InfluxData | 2 | 283 | 2012 | Series E |
| 26 | Nanonets | 2 | 212 | 2017 | Series B |
| 27 | ScyllaDB | 1 | 709 | 2013 | Series C |
| 28 | Mapbox | 1 | 518 | 2011 | Series E |
| 29 | Linear | 1 | 491 | 2019 | Series C |
| 30 | Sourcegraph | 1 | 459 | 2013 | Series D |
| 31 | Box | 1 | 339 | 2005 | public |
| 32 | Confluent | 1 | 314 | 2014 | acquired |
| 33 | AssemblyAI | 1 | 288 | 2017 | Series C |
| 34 | Datadome | 1 | 285 | 2015 | Series C |
| 35 | Retool | 1 | 250 | 2017 | Series C |
| 36 | Zapier | 1 | 222 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 37 | Nhost | 1 | 210 | 2018 | seed |
| 38 | WorkOS | 1 | 205 | 2019 | Series B |
| 39 | GitGuardian | 1 | 200 | 2017 | Series C |
| 40 | Heap | 1 | 157 | 2013 | acquired |
| 41 | Twingate | 1 | 156 | 2019 | Series B |
| 42 | PostHog | 1 | 155 | 2020 | Series D |
| 43 | Webflow | 1 | 148 | 2012 | Series C |
| 44 | LaunchDarkly | 1 | 138 | 2014 | Series D |
| 45 | Carto | 1 | 127 | 2012 | Series C |
| 46 | Hasura | 1 | 121 | 2017 | Series C |
| 47 | Checkly | 1 | 118 | 2018 | Series B |
| 48 | Sentry | 1 | 115 | 2011 | Series E |
| 49 | Strapi | 1 | 106 | 2016 | Series A |
| 50 | Comet | 1 | 94 | 2017 | Series B |
| 51 | Tile.ai | 1 | 94 | 2017 | Series B |
| 52 | Memgraph | 1 | 89 | 2016 | seed |
| 53 | Fastly | 1 | 85 | 2011 | public |
| 54 | Semaphore | 1 | 84 | 2009 | bootstrapped |
| 55 | Yugabyte | 1 | 82 | 2016 | Series C |
| 56 | PlanetScale | 1 | 82 | 2018 | Series C |
| 57 | Metaplane | 1 | 81 | 2019 | acquired |
| 58 | FusionAuth | 1 | 79 | 2018 | Series A |
| 59 | Sleuth | 1 | 75 | 2019 | Series A |
| 60 | Redis | 1 | 74 | 2011 | Series G |
| 61 | MongoDB | 1 | 71 | 2007 | public |
| 62 | Contentful | 1 | 68 | 2013 | acquired |
| 63 | Lokalise | 1 | 62 | 2017 | Series B |
| 64 | Plaid | 1 | 54 | 2013 | Series E |
| 65 | Swimm | 1 | 52 | 2019 | Series A |
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