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Type of site | Technology, Hacker Culture |
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| Founder(s) | David Smooke |
| URL | hackernoon |
| Launched | 2016 |
| Current status | Active |
HackerNoon is an online publishing platform established in 2016 by David Smooke. [1] [2] The site covers a range of topics including software development, startups, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, and hacker culture. [3] It serves as a community driven platform for professionals and enthusiasts to share technical articles, opinions and insights. [4]
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The HackerNoon Newsletter was launched shortly after the website went live, [5] and to date has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. [6] The publishing platform has published blog posts from thousands of technology leaders including, [7] Mark Zuckerberg, [8] Daniel Tawfik, [9] Nikola Ondrík Andreánska, [10] Sam Altman, [11] Rob Durst, [12] Nick Johnson, [13] Charlie Shrem, [14] Jeremy Gardner, [15] Serge Faguet, [16] Sophia Ciocca, [17] Arthur Hayes, and Andrew Magdy Kama. [18]
In 2019, the company raised $1.065M via equity crowdfunding, [19] from over a thousand people including Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian. [19] [20] HackerNoon then moved from Medium to its own custom publishing platform, [21] offering contributors tools to manage their content and retain ownership rights. [22] Google Cloud Platform and Cloudfare granted the company cloud hosting credits. [23] [24] The platform has also adopted decentralized storage solutions to archive its published articles, [25] [26] AI integrations to translate, curate and distribute blogs, [27] and a voting system to rank bloggers and companies. [28]