Hacker News Leaderboard
96 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2021. Last updated August 8, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2021)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 174 | 95,499 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Cloudflare | 34 | 7,262 | 2009 | public |
| 3 | OpenAI | 13 | 3,586 | 2015 | Series F |
| 4 | Fly.io | 12 | 4,217 | 2016 | Series C |
| 5 | Earthly | 11 | 3,755 | 2020 | seed |
| 6 | Tailscale | 11 | 2,764 | 2019 | Series C |
| 7 | Google Cloud | 11 | 2,668 | 1998 | public |
| 8 | Tiger Data | 11 | 2,384 | 2015 | Series C |
| 9 | JetBrains | 11 | 2,061 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 10 | Replit | 10 | 2,187 | 2016 | Series D |
| 11 | GitLab | 9 | 1,415 | 2014 | public |
| 12 | Stripe | 8 | 4,050 | 2010 | Series H |
| 13 | Fastly | 8 | 3,143 | 2011 | public |
| 14 | Hugging Face | 7 | 899 | 2016 | Series D |
| 15 | HashiCorp | 6 | 1,349 | 2012 | public |
| 16 | Pinecone | 6 | 693 | 2019 | Series B |
| 17 | Heap | 5 | 1,053 | 2013 | acquired |
| 18 | Netlify | 5 | 922 | 2015 | Series D |
| 19 | PlanetScale | 5 | 737 | 2018 | Series C |
| 20 | Vantage | 5 | 678 | 2020 | Series A |
| 21 | Sourcegraph | 5 | 519 | 2013 | Series D |
| 22 | Roboflow | 4 | 1,228 | 2020 | Series B |
| 23 | Honeycomb | 4 | 716 | 2016 | Series D |
| 24 | Oso | 4 | 569 | 2018 | Series A |
| 25 | Mux | 3 | 1,174 | 2015 | Series D |
| 26 | Detectify | 3 | 1,038 | 2013 | Series B |
| 27 | Grafana Labs | 3 | 1,037 | 2014 | Series D |
| 28 | Cockroach Labs | 3 | 795 | 2015 | Series F |
| 29 | AssemblyAI | 3 | 690 | 2017 | Series C |
| 30 | Metabase | 3 | 660 | 2014 | Series B |
| 31 | Retool | 3 | 635 | 2017 | Series C |
| 32 | LogRocket | 3 | 441 | 2016 | Series B |
| 33 | Evervault | 3 | 418 | 2019 | Series B |
| 34 | Elastic | 2 | 1,759 | 2012 | public |
| 35 | JFrog | 2 | 623 | 2008 | public |
| 36 | Supabase | 2 | 600 | 2020 | Series F |
| 37 | Zapier | 2 | 576 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 38 | Confluent | 2 | 464 | 2014 | acquired |
| 39 | Algolia | 2 | 416 | 2012 | Series D |
| 40 | Ably | 2 | 399 | 2016 | Series B |
| 41 | Warp | 2 | 388 | 2020 | Series B |
| 42 | PostHog | 2 | 374 | 2020 | Series D |
| 43 | FusionAuth | 2 | 363 | 2018 | Series A |
| 44 | AuthZed | 2 | 362 | 2020 | Series A |
| 45 | Vercel | 2 | 303 | 2015 | Series F |
| 46 | QuestDB | 2 | 245 | 2019 | Series A |
| 47 | Humanloop | 2 | 212 | 2020 | seed |
| 48 | Incident.io | 2 | 200 | 2021 | Series B |
| 49 | Tinybird | 2 | 194 | 2019 | Series B |
| 50 | Plaid | 2 | 191 | 2013 | Series E |
| 51 | Hookdeck | 2 | 190 | 2020 | seed |
| 52 | Wundergraph | 2 | 151 | 2020 | Series A |
| 53 | ScyllaDB | 2 | 150 | 2013 | Series C |
| 54 | Mixpanel | 2 | 123 | 2009 | Series C |
| 55 | DigitalOcean | 2 | 115 | 2012 | public |
| 56 | Replay | 1 | 681 | 2021 | Series A |
| 57 | Graphite | 1 | 467 | 2020 | acquired |
| 58 | Sentry | 1 | 465 | 2011 | Series E |
| 59 | Semgrep | 1 | 415 | 2017 | Series D |
| 60 | StackBlitz | 1 | 387 | 2017 | Series B |
| 61 | Twilio | 1 | 348 | 2008 | public |
| 62 | Mapbox | 1 | 327 | 2011 | Series E |
| 63 | Pulumi | 1 | 321 | 2017 | Series C |
| 64 | PagerDuty | 1 | 292 | 2009 | public |
| 65 | FlutterFlow | 1 | 270 | 2020 | Series A |
| 66 | Sysdig | 1 | 221 | 2013 | Series G |
| 67 | SuperTokens | 1 | 217 | 2019 | pre-seed |
| 68 | Courier | 1 | 213 | 2019 | Series B |
| 69 | GitGuardian | 1 | 192 | 2017 | Series C |
| 70 | Swarmia | 1 | 155 | 2019 | Series A |
| 71 | Neo4j | 1 | 154 | 2007 | Series F |
| 72 | Fivetran | 1 | 148 | 2012 | Series D |
| 73 | Qovery | 1 | 147 | 2020 | seed |
| 74 | Webflow | 1 | 139 | 2012 | Series C |
| 75 | ClickHouse | 1 | 133 | 2021 | Series D |
| 76 | Anthropic | 1 | 128 | 2021 | Series H |
| 77 | Crowdstrike | 1 | 118 | 2011 | public |
| 78 | WorkOS | 1 | 115 | 2019 | Series B |
| 79 | SingleStore | 1 | 98 | 2011 | Series F |
| 80 | Doppler | 1 | 90 | 2018 | Series A |
| 81 | Linear | 1 | 79 | 2019 | Series C |
| 82 | Arnica | 1 | 78 | 2021 | seed |
| 83 | Daily | 1 | 76 | 2016 | Series B |
| 84 | Hex | 1 | 68 | 2019 | Series C |
| 85 | Starburst | 1 | 66 | 2017 | Series D |
| 86 | Tines | 1 | 66 | 2018 | Series C |
| 87 | LiveKit | 1 | 64 | 2021 | Series C |
| 88 | TigerBeetle | 1 | 63 | 2022 | Series A |
| 89 | TigerGraph | 1 | 61 | 2012 | Series C |
| 90 | Cast AI | 1 | 60 | 2019 | Series C |
| 91 | Apollo | 1 | 57 | 2016 | Series D |
| 92 | Replicated | 1 | 56 | 2015 | Series C |
| 93 | Postman | 1 | 53 | 2014 | Series D |
| 94 | New Relic | 1 | 53 | 2008 | PE |
| 95 | Memgraph | 1 | 52 | 2016 | seed |
| 96 | Polar Signals | 1 | 50 | 2020 | seed |
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