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Type of site | Technology, Hacker Culture |
|---|---|
| Founder | David Smooke |
| URL | hackernoon |
| Launched | 2016 |
| Current status | Active |
HackerNoon is an online publishing platform established in 2016 by David Smooke. [1] The site covers a range of topics including software development, startups, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, and hacker culture. [2] It serves as a community driven platform for professionals and enthusiasts to share technical articles, opinions and insights. [3]
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The HackerNoon Newsletter was launched shortly after the website went live, [4] and to date has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. [5] The publishing platform has published blog posts from thousands of technology leaders including, [6] Mark Zuckerberg, [7] Daniel Tawfik, [8] Nikola Ondrík Andreánska, [9] Sam Altman, [10] Rob Durst, [11] Nick Johnson, [12] Charlie Shrem, [13] Jeremy Gardner, [14] Serge Faguet, [15] Sophia Ciocca, [16] Arthur Hayes, and Andrew Magdy Kama. [17]
In 2019, the company raised $1.065M via equity crowdfunding, [18] from over a thousand people including Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian. [18] [19] HackerNoon then moved from Medium to its own custom publishing platform, [20] offering contributors tools to manage their content and retain ownership rights. [21] Google Cloud Platform and Cloudflare granted the company cloud hosting credits. [22] [23] The platform has also adopted decentralized storage solutions to archive its published articles, [24] [25] AI integrations to translate, curate and distribute blogs, and a voting system to rank bloggers and companies. [26]