Hacker News Leaderboard
143 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2023. Last updated August 8, 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 | 71 | 32,717 | 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 | 16 | 2,130 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 8 | Tailscale | 13 | 3,595 | 2019 | Series C |
| 9 | PlanetScale | 10 | 1,717 | 2018 | Series C |
| 10 | GitLab | 9 | 1,845 | 2014 | public |
| 11 | Anthropic | 8 | 3,258 | 2021 | Series H |
| 12 | Sourcegraph | 8 | 1,353 | 2013 | Series D |
| 13 | QuestDB | 8 | 1,119 | 2019 | Series A |
| 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 | Retool | 6 | 1,913 | 2017 | Series C |
| 19 | Modular | 6 | 1,391 | 2022 | Series B |
| 20 | Replit | 6 | 915 | 2016 | Series D |
| 21 | Neon | 6 | 782 | 2021 | acquired |
| 22 | Replicate | 5 | 1,254 | 2019 | acquired |
| 23 | TigerBeetle | 5 | 888 | 2022 | Series A |
| 24 | Railway | 5 | 752 | 2020 | Series B |
| 25 | Anyscale | 5 | 734 | 2019 | acquired |
| 26 | Vercel | 5 | 702 | 2015 | Series F |
| 27 | Together AI | 5 | 665 | 2022 | Series C |
| 28 | Zilliz | 5 | 531 | 2017 | Series B |
| 29 | Graphite | 5 | 382 | 2020 | acquired |
| 30 | LangChain | 4 | 640 | 2022 | Series B |
| 31 | Mistral AI | 3 | 2,014 | 2023 | Series C |
| 32 | PostHog | 3 | 1,225 | 2020 | Series D |
| 33 | Nango | 3 | 954 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 34 | Twilio | 3 | 953 | 2008 | public |
| 35 | Incident.io | 3 | 941 | 2021 | Series B |
| 36 | Buildkite | 3 | 912 | 2014 | Series B |
| 37 | Lightning AI | 3 | 860 | 2019 | Series B |
| 38 | Roboflow | 3 | 714 | 2020 | Series B |
| 39 | Honeycomb | 3 | 700 | 2016 | Series D |
| 40 | ClickHouse | 3 | 693 | 2021 | Series D |
| 41 | InfluxData | 3 | 676 | 2012 | Series E |
| 42 | ElevenLabs | 3 | 638 | 2022 | Series C |
| 43 | Earthly | 3 | 634 | 2020 | seed |
| 44 | Algolia | 3 | 626 | 2012 | Series D |
| 45 | Zed | 3 | 573 | 2021 | Series B |
| 46 | Baseten | 3 | 566 | 2019 | Series E |
| 47 | Fingerprint | 3 | 551 | 2019 | Series C |
| 48 | Mux | 3 | 530 | 2015 | Series D |
| 49 | Netlify | 3 | 507 | 2015 | Series D |
| 50 | Memgraph | 3 | 455 | 2016 | seed |
| 51 | Airbyte | 3 | 381 | 2020 | Series B |
| 52 | Tembo | 3 | 355 | 2022 | Series A |
| 53 | Render | 3 | 333 | 2018 | Series C |
| 54 | AssemblyAI | 3 | 332 | 2017 | Series C |
| 55 | Cohere | 3 | 277 | 2019 | Series F |
| 56 | Pulumi | 3 | 248 | 2017 | Series C |
| 57 | Gel Data | 3 | 246 | 2019 | Series A |
| 58 | Dagster | 2 | 644 | 2018 | acquired |
| 59 | Resend | 2 | 641 | 2023 | Series A |
| 60 | Humanloop | 2 | 575 | 2020 | seed |
| 61 | WarpStream | 2 | 555 | 2017 | acquired |
| 62 | Svix | 2 | 532 | 2021 | seed |
| 63 | Turso | 2 | 488 | 2021 | seed |
| 64 | OpenPipe | 2 | 471 | 2023 | seed |
| 65 | ScyllaDB | 2 | 460 | 2013 | Series C |
| 66 | CircleCI | 2 | 398 | 2011 | Series F |
| 67 | Zapier | 2 | 335 | 2011 | bootstrapped |
| 68 | PropelAuth | 2 | 332 | 2021 | seed |
| 69 | Encord | 2 | 322 | 2020 | Series C |
| 70 | Warp | 2 | 267 | 2020 | Series B |
| 71 | Grafana Labs | 2 | 255 | 2014 | Series D |
| 72 | Confluent | 2 | 251 | 2014 | acquired |
| 73 | Lago | 2 | 232 | 2021 | Series A |
| 74 | Semaphore | 2 | 225 | 2009 | bootstrapped |
| 75 | Felt | 2 | 218 | 2021 | Series A |
| 76 | Sentry | 2 | 217 | 2011 | Series E |
| 77 | JFrog | 2 | 214 | 2008 | public |
| 78 | Temporal | 2 | 210 | 2019 | Series D |
| 79 | Vectara | 2 | 210 | 2022 | Series A |
| 80 | Convex | 2 | 180 | 2021 | Series B |
| 81 | Superblocks | 2 | 180 | 2021 | Series A |
| 82 | DigitalOcean | 2 | 179 | 2012 | public |
| 83 | Qdrant | 2 | 178 | 2021 | Series B |
| 84 | FusionAuth | 2 | 177 | 2018 | Series A |
| 85 | Dragonfly | 2 | 159 | 2022 | Series A |
| 86 | Inngest | 2 | 141 | 2021 | seed |
| 87 | Postman | 2 | 137 | 2014 | Series D |
| 88 | Tiger Data | 2 | 130 | 2015 | Series C |
| 89 | Fastly | 2 | 125 | 2011 | public |
| 90 | Linear | 2 | 120 | 2019 | Series C |
| 91 | Elastic | 2 | 112 | 2012 | public |
| 92 | Trigger.dev | 1 | 745 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 93 | Esper | 1 | 453 | 2017 | Series C |
| 94 | Knock | 1 | 389 | 2021 | Series A |
| 95 | Lakera | 1 | 378 | 2021 | Series A |
| 96 | Vespa | 1 | 351 | 2023 | Series A |
| 97 | MongoDB | 1 | 269 | 2007 | public |
| 98 | Voxel51 | 1 | 238 | 2016 | Series B |
| 99 | n8n | 1 | 237 | 2019 | Series C |
| 100 | Spacelift | 1 | 230 | 2020 | Series C |
| 101 | Circle | 1 | 217 | 2013 | public |
| 102 | Unleash | 1 | 212 | 2019 | Series B |
| 103 | LllamaIndex | 1 | 208 | 2023 | Series A |
| 104 | deepset | 1 | 202 | 2018 | Series B |
| 105 | Convoy | 1 | 169 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 106 | PeerDB | 1 | 167 | 2023 | acquired |
| 107 | Octopus Deploy | 1 | 164 | 2012 | Series A |
| 108 | Datadog | 1 | 156 | 2010 | public |
| 109 | Sanity | 1 | 154 | 2018 | Series C |
| 110 | LanceDB | 1 | 151 | 2022 | Series A |
| 111 | Yugabyte | 1 | 150 | 2016 | Series C |
| 112 | Jam | 1 | 137 | 2020 | Series A |
| 113 | Pydantic | 1 | 137 | 2022 | Series A |
| 114 | Infisical | 1 | 131 | 2022 | Series A |
| 115 | Flagsmith | 1 | 119 | 2018 | bootstrapped |
| 116 | Socket | 1 | 114 | 2020 | Series C |
| 117 | Zama | 1 | 108 | 2020 | Series B |
| 118 | Onehouse | 1 | 105 | 2021 | Series B |
| 119 | Stytch | 1 | 102 | 2020 | Series B |
| 120 | Liblab | 1 | 102 | 2022 | Series A |
| 121 | Deepgram | 1 | 101 | 2015 | Series C |
| 122 | AI21 Labs | 1 | 97 | 2017 | Series D |
| 123 | Heap | 1 | 96 | 2013 | acquired |
| 124 | Bandwidth | 1 | 95 | 1999 | public |
| 125 | Polar Signals | 1 | 81 | 2020 | seed |
| 126 | Permit.io | 1 | 78 | 2020 | Series A |
| 127 | Redis | 1 | 76 | 2011 | Series G |
| 128 | Redpanda | 1 | 72 | 2019 | Series D |
| 129 | Hex | 1 | 71 | 2019 | Series C |
| 130 | LogicLoop | 1 | 71 | 2021 | seed |
| 131 | Tinybird | 1 | 69 | 2019 | Series B |
| 132 | Doppler | 1 | 68 | 2018 | Series A |
| 133 | Authentik Security | 1 | 67 | 2022 | seed |
| 134 | Gentrace | 1 | 67 | 2023 | Series A |
| 135 | Cleanlab | 1 | 66 | 2021 | Series A |
| 136 | SurrealDB | 1 | 63 | 2021 | Series A |
| 137 | Chainguard | 1 | 59 | 2021 | Series D |
| 138 | Kong | 1 | 58 | 2017 | Series E |
| 139 | Refuel | 1 | 55 | 2021 | acquired |
| 140 | Rill | 1 | 55 | 2020 | seed |
| 141 | Openlayer | 1 | 53 | 2021 | Series A |
| 142 | Fireworks AI | 1 | 53 | 2022 | Series D |
| 143 | Cockroach Labs | 1 | 52 | 2015 | Series F |
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