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About HackerNoon
How Hackers
Start Their Afternoons
HackerNoon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 45,000+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 4+ million curious and insightful monthly readers.
The HackerNoon Team
Who's Behind
HackerNoon?
HackerNoon is a small, distributed team of 20-ish people* passionate about making the internet a better place by publishing free high quality tech stories - without paywalls, pop-up ads, or a sense of entitlement.
*HackerNoon is also a huge, global team of over 45,000+ writers, founders, makers, thinkers and technologists, plus over 4 Million monthly readers, but unfortunately we didn’t have space to feature them all here.
david smooke
founder & ceo
linh smooke
coo
utsav jaiswal
vp - business development
limarc ambalina
vp - editorial
richard kubina
vp - engineering
marcos fabian
sr. full-stack software developer
hang ngo
vp - operations
guy torbet
software engineer
sidra ijaz
sr. business development manager
jeferson borba
full-stack software developer
kien dao
product designer
daria kulish
digital marketing lead
beni mahat
full-stack software developer
mónica freitas
marketing & editorial assistant
kushal tamrakar
support & operations
jose hernandez
general tech & gaming
editor
sheharyar khan
business & economics
editor
asher umerie
world news & science fiction
editor
adrian morales
consumer tech & gaming
editor
tuan anh vu
marketing & editorial assistant
devansh chaudhary
full-stack designer
ana gimenez
assistant to the coo
ana gimenez
assistant to the coo
The HackerNoon Community
The Greenest Place for Hackers to Hang Out
& Get Published
HackerNoon is where hackers start their afternoons. We’re talking diehards; lurkers; script kiddies; hats all the way through white, grey, green, blue, red and black; plus a few plain old Tim Ferriss fanboy #LifeHackers - the full spectrum, you’ll find ’em here. HackerNoon is a close-knit community for cat people and single dads who code. A safe place for power women in tech and misunderstood millennials. For gross teenagers and curious retirees. For hodlrs, venture capitalists and anarchists. For entrepreneurs and engineers. For philosophers, product managers, and futurists.
In short, HackerNoon has space for everybody. There is only one rule of engagement: We treat our internet friends with respect.
HackerNoon is also on pretty much every social media platform ever invented—so find us where you like to be by searching @hackernoon. Or come hang out with us via slogging.
Here are some nice things our friends have said about us on the socials
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Aurora
@auroraisnear
📣 Aurora Labs has been nominated for Startup of the Year in Gibraltar by HackerNoon! 🎉

We need your support to secure the win, so please cast your vote and help us reach the top! 🗳️ 🚀

🔗 https://startups.hackernoon.com /europe/europe-gibraltar-bvi-uk
May 30, 2023
Aurora
@auroraisnear
📣 Aurora Labs has been nominated for Startup of the Year in Gibraltar by HackerNoon! 🎉

We need your support to secure the win, so please cast your vote and help us reach the top! 🗳️ 🚀

🔗 https://startups.hackernoon.com /europe/europe-gibraltar-bvi-uk
May 30, 2023
Aurora
@auroraisnear
📣 Aurora Labs has been nominated for Startup of the Year in Gibraltar by HackerNoon! 🎉

We need your support to secure the win, so please cast your vote and help us reach the top! 🗳️ 🚀

🔗 https://startups.hackernoon.com /europe/europe-gibraltar-bvi-uk
May 30, 2023
Aurora
@auroraisnear
📣 Aurora Labs has been nominated for Startup of the Year in Gibraltar by HackerNoon! 🎉

We need your support to secure the win, so please cast your vote and help us reach the top! 🗳️ 🚀

🔗 https://startups.hackernoon.com /europe/europe-gibraltar-bvi-uk
May 30, 2023
Aurora
@auroraisnear
📣 Aurora Labs has been nominated for Startup of the Year in Gibraltar by HackerNoon! 🎉

We need your support to secure the win, so please cast your vote and help us reach the top! 🗳️ 🚀

🔗 https://startups.hackernoon.com /europe/europe-gibraltar-bvi-uk
May 30, 2023
Aurora
@auroraisnear
📣 Aurora Labs has been nominated for Startup of the Year in Gibraltar by HackerNoon! 🎉

We need your support to secure the win, so please cast your vote and help us reach the top! 🗳️ 🚀

🔗 https://startups.hackernoon.com /europe/europe-gibraltar-bvi-uk
May 30, 2023
HackerNoon’s Partners
Helping Us Keep
HackerNoon
Free to Read, Forever
The internet is our generation's greatest invention. We think it works better without paywalls, pop-ups, or the abuse of data.
Whether it’s a Newsletter Sponsorship, taking over HackerNoon’s Site-Wide Top Navigation Banner for awhile, or buying credits to publish Brand-as-Author Posts, these are the #GoodCompanies currently helping us keep the lights on HackerNoon.
HackerNoon’s Tech Stack
The Products that
Power HackerNoon
We code our site from the feet up. In July 2019, we removed the Medium content management system from our site, and launched our own publishing platform. Overnight, HackerNoon became not only a publishing company, but also a software company.

​We built (and continue to build) the HackerNoon platform:
​For readers to enjoy access to highest quality, evergreen and topical tech content—paywall and pop-up-free
For writers to elevate their own voices with the support of our team of human editors to review, improve, publish, and distribute their words online
For sponsors to make a positive and potentially profitable impression on tech’s most influential and innovative minds
In the Press
HackerNoon Stories
Get Cited All Over
the Interwebs
Our writers' stories achieve mad coverage in both fringe and mainstream media.