HackerNoon.com

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Short description: American technology news website
HackerNoon.com
Type of site
Technology news and analysis
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersEagle County, Colorado, United States
OwnerArtMap Inc.
Founder(s)David Smooke
CEODavid Smooke
IndustryNews, Technology, Blogging, Publishing, Software, Startups, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Employees15
Websitehackernoon.com
Alexa rankDecrease 4,499 (Global, (As of April 2020))[1]
RegistrationNot required to read. Required to write.
Launched2016

HackerNoon.com is an American technology publishing website. It focuses on reporting the latest news related to software development, startups, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrencies. It started in 2016 and is run by the husband and wife team of David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke.[2]

History

Hacker Noon was founded by David Smooke, and first kicked off on Medium in January 2016 as the "Hacker Daily,” where they amassed over 450k followers. In April 2016, it went live on the domain "Hackernoon.com".[3]

As of December 2019, HackerNoon.com has over 10,000 contributing writers and 4 million monthly readers, according to its CEO.[4]

Funding

In early-2019, HackerNoon.com raised the U.S. $1.07 million via an equity crowdfunding campaign from 1,198 shareholders, including investment from Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian and Initialized Capital Partner Gary Tan.[5] Approximately 85% of shareholders came from website's readership. This expanded the team's software development, content production and editorial resources, making it possible to make a new publishing platform, dubbed as "Hacker Noon 2.0".[6] This new content management platform is partially based on a blockchain framework. And, by July 2019, the migration was completed.[7]

Controversies

In 2017, a HackerNoon.com data journalism story, “More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked" by data scientist Jeff Kao garnered coverage from BoingBoing,[8] Forbes ,[9] Fortune,[10] Stanford University,[11] Techmeme,[12] Buzzfeed,[13] and other top tech sites. Actor and Activist Alyssa Milano used it as evidence for why FCC Chairman Ajit Pai should not repeal Net Neutrality.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "hackernoon.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hackernoon.com. Retrieved 26 April 2020. 
  2. ↑ "Where There's Smooke There's Fire: Interview With David Smooke Founder of Hacker Noon" (in en). https://www.coinstrategy.io/single-post/2018/07/19/Where-Theres-Smooke-Theres-Fire-Interview-With-David-Smooke-Founder-of-Hacker-Noon. 
  3. ↑ "The Case of Hacker Noon Moving from Medium - Vico Biscotti" (in en-US). 2019-03-20. https://www.insideblogging.net/en/hacker-noon-moving-from-medium/. 
  4. ↑ "Hackernoon CEO's Take On Building A Successful Tech Startup" (in en-US). 2019-12-10. https://get.tech/blog/building-a-successful-tech-startup/. 
  5. ↑ "Hacker Noon". https://www.startengine.com/hackernoon. 
  6. ↑ "Hacker Noon Releases Tech Publishing Platform 2.0" (in en). 2019-07-17. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190717005211/en/Hacker-Noon-Releases-Tech-Publishing-Platform-2.0. 
  7. ↑ "Hacker Noon Is Storing Content on a Blockchain After Ditching Medium" (in en). 2020-01-22. https://www.coindesk.com/hacker-noon-is-storing-content-on-a-blockchain-after-ditching-medium. 
  8. ↑ "A million anti-Net Neutrality comments reportedly fake" (in en-US). 2017-11-27. https://boingboing.net/2017/11/27/a-million-anti-net-neutrality.html. 
  9. ↑ Burns, Janet. "Earth To Pai: Millions Of Pro-Repeal Comments Likely Used Stolen Identities" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2017/12/14/earth-to-pai-those-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments-used-stolen-identities/. 
  10. ↑ "1.3 Million FCC Comments Opposing Net Neutrality Were Probably Fake" (in en). https://fortune.com/2017/11/25/1-million-fake-fcc-comments-net-neutrality-were-probably-fake/. 
  11. ↑ Singel, Ryan (October 2018). "Filtering Out the Bots: What Americans Actually Told the FCC about Net Neutrality Repeal". Stanford Center for Internet and Society. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/blogs/FilteringOutTheBotsUnique2017NetNeutralityComments1024Update.pdf. 
  12. ↑ "Analysis of FCC net neutrality comments finds over 1M pro-repeal were likely faked and 99% of organic comments were in favor of keeping rules". https://www.techmeme.com/171124/p10#a171124p10. 
  13. ↑ "Political Operatives Are Faking Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments To Benefit The Rich And Powerful" (in en). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/net-neutrality-fcc-fake-comments-impersonation. 
  14. ↑ Milano, Alyssa (2017-12-03). "Finally, we agree, @AjitPaiFCC! Your own flawed comment system lacks integrity and is unreliable. You should also agree with the rest of the world and take #NetNeutrality repeal off the agenda until you can figure out how to hear from the American people." (in en). https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/937490502064144384. 
  15. ↑ "FCC and netneutrality | InforMedia Services (IMS)". https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/22/fcc-and-netneutrality/. 





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