Hacker News Leaderboard
135 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2023. Last updated September 23, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2023)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 177 | 101,944 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | OpenAI | 69 | 32,289 | 2015 | Series F |
| 3 | Cloudflare | 33 | 5,463 | 2009 | public |
| 4 | Fly.io | 24 | 7,801 | 2016 | Series C |
| 5 | Hugging Face | 24 | 3,047 | 2016 | Series D |
| 6 | Supabase | 17 | 3,030 | 2020 | Series F |
| 7 | JetBrains | 15 | 2,057 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 8 | Tailscale | 14 | 3,900 | 2019 | Series C |
| 9 | PlanetScale | 10 | 1,717 | 2018 | Series C |
| 10 | GitLab | 9 | 1,845 | 2014 | public |
| 11 | Sourcegraph | 8 | 1,353 | 2013 | Series D |
| 12 | QuestDB | 8 | 1,119 | 2019 | Series A |
| 13 | Anthropic | 7 | 3,168 | 2021 | Series H |
| 14 | HashiCorp | 7 | 2,117 | 2012 | public |
| 15 | Google Cloud | 7 | 1,339 | 1998 | public |
| 16 | Stripe | 7 | 1,111 | 2010 | Series H |
| 17 | Pinecone | 7 | 1,066 | 2019 | Series B |
| 18 | Neon | 6 | 782 | 2021 | acquired |
| 19 | Retool | 5 | 1,515 | 2017 | Series C |
| 20 | Modular | 5 | 1,327 | 2022 | Series B |
| 21 | TigerBeetle | 5 | 888 | 2022 | Series A |
| 22 | Railway | 5 | 752 | 2020 | Series B |
| 23 | Together AI | 5 | 665 | 2022 | Series C |
| 24 | Replit | 5 | 632 | 2016 | Series D |
| 25 | Earthly | 4 | 792 | 2020 | seed |
| 26 | Vercel | 4 | 625 | 2015 | Series F |
| 27 | Anyscale | 4 | 591 | 2019 | acquired |
| 28 | Replicate | 4 | 571 | 2019 | acquired |
| 29 | Graphite | 4 | 330 | 2020 | acquired |
| 30 | Mistral AI | 3 | 2,014 | 2023 | Series D |
| 31 | PostHog | 3 | 1,225 | 2020 | Series D |
| 32 | Twilio | 3 | 953 | 2008 | public |
| 33 | Lightning AI | 3 | 860 | 2019 | Series B |
| 34 | ClickHouse | 3 | 693 | 2021 | Series D |
| 35 | InfluxData | 3 | 676 | 2012 | Series E |
| 36 | Algolia | 3 | 626 | 2012 | Series D |
| 37 | ScyllaDB | 3 | 574 | 2013 | Series C |
| 38 | Fingerprint | 3 | 551 | 2019 | Series C |
| 39 | LangChain | 3 | 542 | 2022 | Series B |
| 40 | Netlify | 3 | 507 | 2015 | Series D |
| 41 | Memgraph | 3 | 455 | 2016 | seed |
| 42 | Airbyte | 3 | 381 | 2020 | Series B |
| 43 | AssemblyAI | 3 | 332 | 2017 | Series C |
| 44 | Fastly | 3 | 310 | 2011 | public |
| 45 | Zilliz | 3 | 269 | 2017 | Series B |
| 46 | Pulumi | 3 | 248 | 2017 | Series C |
| 47 | ElevenLabs | 2 | 577 | 2022 | Series C |
| 48 | WarpStream | 2 | 555 | 2017 | acquired |
| 49 | Turso | 2 | 488 | 2021 | seed |
| 50 | OpenPipe | 2 | 471 | 2023 | seed |
| 51 | Roboflow | 2 | 463 | 2020 | Series B |
| 52 | Baseten | 2 | 453 | 2019 | Series E |
| 53 | Honeycomb | 2 | 451 | 2016 | Series D |
| 54 | Mux | 2 | 449 | 2015 | Series D |
| 55 | CircleCI | 2 | 398 | 2011 | Series F |
| 56 | Zed | 2 | 350 | 2021 | Series B |
| 57 | Zapier | 2 | 335 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 58 | Encord | 2 | 322 | 2020 | Series C |
| 59 | Nango | 2 | 312 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 60 | Incident.io | 2 | 288 | 2021 | Series B |
| 61 | Grafana Labs | 2 | 255 | 2014 | Series D |
| 62 | Confluent | 2 | 251 | 2014 | acquired |
| 63 | Semaphore | 2 | 225 | 2009 | bootstrapped |
| 64 | Sentry | 2 | 217 | 2011 | Series E |
| 65 | JFrog | 2 | 214 | 2008 | public |
| 66 | Temporal | 2 | 210 | 2019 | Series E |
| 67 | Vectara | 2 | 210 | 2022 | Series A |
| 68 | Cohere | 2 | 205 | 2019 | Series F |
| 69 | Render | 2 | 192 | 2018 | Series C |
| 70 | Superblocks | 2 | 180 | 2021 | Series A |
| 71 | DigitalOcean | 2 | 179 | 2012 | public |
| 72 | Qdrant | 2 | 178 | 2021 | Series B |
| 73 | FusionAuth | 2 | 177 | 2018 | Series A |
| 74 | Dragonfly | 2 | 159 | 2022 | Series A |
| 75 | Postman | 2 | 137 | 2014 | Series D |
| 76 | Tiger Data | 2 | 130 | 2015 | Series C |
| 77 | Linear | 2 | 120 | 2019 | Series C |
| 78 | Elastic | 2 | 112 | 2012 | public |
| 79 | Esper | 1 | 453 | 2017 | Series C |
| 80 | Knock | 1 | 389 | 2021 | Series A |
| 81 | Vespa | 1 | 351 | 2023 | Series A |
| 82 | Humanloop | 1 | 313 | 2020 | seed |
| 83 | MongoDB | 1 | 269 | 2007 | public |
| 84 | PropelAuth | 1 | 253 | 2021 | seed |
| 85 | Voxel51 | 1 | 238 | 2016 | Series B |
| 86 | n8n | 1 | 237 | 2019 | Series C |
| 87 | Spacelift | 1 | 230 | 2020 | Series C |
| 88 | Circle | 1 | 217 | 2013 | public |
| 89 | Unleash | 1 | 212 | 2019 | Series B |
| 90 | Resend | 1 | 209 | 2023 | Series A |
| 91 | LllamaIndex | 1 | 208 | 2023 | Series A |
| 92 | deepset | 1 | 202 | 2018 | Series B |
| 93 | Trigger.dev | 1 | 172 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 94 | Convoy | 1 | 169 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 95 | PeerDB | 1 | 167 | 2023 | acquired |
| 96 | Octopus Deploy | 1 | 164 | 2012 | Series A |
| 97 | Warp | 1 | 156 | 2020 | Series B |
| 98 | Datadog | 1 | 156 | 2010 | public |
| 99 | Dagster | 1 | 155 | 2018 | acquired |
| 100 | Sanity | 1 | 154 | 2018 | Series C |
| 101 | LanceDB | 1 | 151 | 2022 | Series A |
| 102 | Yugabyte | 1 | 150 | 2016 | Series C |
| 103 | Jam | 1 | 137 | 2020 | Series A |
| 104 | Flagsmith | 1 | 119 | 2018 | bootstrapped |
| 105 | Socket | 1 | 114 | 2020 | Series C |
| 106 | Zama | 1 | 108 | 2020 | Series B |
| 107 | Onehouse | 1 | 105 | 2021 | Series B |
| 108 | Infisical | 1 | 103 | 2022 | Series A |
| 109 | Stytch | 1 | 102 | 2020 | Series B |
| 110 | Liblab | 1 | 102 | 2022 | Series A |
| 111 | Deepgram | 1 | 101 | 2015 | Series C |
| 112 | AI21 Labs | 1 | 97 | 2017 | Series D |
| 113 | Heap | 1 | 96 | 2013 | acquired |
| 114 | Bandwidth | 1 | 95 | 1999 | public |
| 115 | Tembo | 1 | 91 | 2022 | Series A |
| 116 | Polar Signals | 1 | 81 | 2020 | acquired |
| 117 | Felt | 1 | 79 | 2021 | Series A |
| 118 | Permit.io | 1 | 78 | 2020 | Series A |
| 119 | Redis | 1 | 76 | 2011 | Series G |
| 120 | Redpanda | 1 | 72 | 2019 | Series D |
| 121 | Tinybird | 1 | 69 | 2019 | Series B |
| 122 | Doppler | 1 | 68 | 2018 | Series A |
| 123 | Authentik Security | 1 | 67 | 2022 | seed |
| 124 | SurrealDB | 1 | 63 | 2021 | Series A |
| 125 | Convex | 1 | 61 | 2021 | Series B |
| 126 | Buildkite | 1 | 59 | 2014 | Series B |
| 127 | Chainguard | 1 | 59 | 2021 | Series D |
| 128 | Kong | 1 | 58 | 2017 | Series E |
| 129 | Refuel | 1 | 55 | 2021 | acquired |
| 130 | Rill | 1 | 55 | 2020 | seed |
| 131 | Inngest | 1 | 54 | 2021 | seed |
| 132 | Lago | 1 | 53 | 2021 | Series A |
| 133 | Openlayer | 1 | 53 | 2021 | Series A |
| 134 | Fireworks AI | 1 | 53 | 2022 | Series D |
| 135 | Cockroach Labs | 1 | 52 | 2015 | Series F |
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