aid: hackernoon
name: Hackernoon
description: >-
  HackerNoon is an independent technology publishing platform and community CMS, founded in
  2016 by David Smooke and headquartered in Edwards, Colorado. It operates a free, open
  library of more than 150,000 practitioner-authored, human-edited technology stories from
  35,000+ contributing engineers, covering AI, software engineering, Web3, cybersecurity,
  startups and science, and serves roughly 3-4 million monthly readers. The company builds
  and open-sources the publishing software behind the site — the Chowa collaborative editor,
  the Pixel Icon Library, the HackerNoon pixel font and the Editing Protocol — and monetises
  through business blogging credits, targeted ads, newsletters and AI content licensing.
  HackerNoon publishes no public API: probed on 2026-08-22, it serves no OpenAPI, GraphQL,
  MCP or A2A surface. Its machine-readable surface is a content and AI-access one — an
  llms.txt, a per-crawler robots.txt policy, RSS feeds and sitemaps — with a "live content
  feed API" advertised in llms.txt as coming in Q3 2026 and not yet shipped.
image: https://cdn.hackernoon.com/images/hn.webp
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hackernoon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-08-22'
tags:
- Company
- Media
- Publishing
- Content
- Technology
- Developer Community
- AI Licensing
- Open Source
- Syndication
- Content Licensing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hackernoon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hackernoon.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://hackernoon.com
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://hackernoon.com/feed
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/hackernoon
- type: SignUp
  url: https://hackernoon.com/p/publish
- type: Pricing
  url: https://business.hackernoon.com/business-blogging
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hackernoon.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hackernoon.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hackernoon.com
- type: Support
  url: https://help.hackernoon.com
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hackernoon-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hackernoon-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/hackernoon-components.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hackernoon-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hackernoon-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hackernoon-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hackernoon-rate-limits.yml
- type: WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/hackernoon-well-known.yml
- type: SecondaryMarketListing
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/hackernoon-stock
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    HackerNoon is a publisher, not an API provider — it runs no developer portal and its own
    llms.txt lists a "Live content feed API" as coming in Q3 2026, so the only machine-readable
    surfaces are llms.txt, robots.txt, RSS and sitemaps.
  evidence:
    - url: https://hackernoon.com/llms.txt
      status: 200
    - url: https://hackernoon.com/openapi.json
      status: 308
    - url: https://api.hackernoon.com/openapi.json
      status: 403
    - url: https://hackernoon.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://hackernoon.com/ai-licensing
      status: 308
  checked: '2026-08-22'