Companies Using Hashnode

I pulled Hashnode out of our October 2026 crawl expecting a small, clean developer platform. The platform part is right; the count needed work. Our detection first flagged 1,302 live domains. A domain counts when a page has a CSS class the rule ties to Hashnode's blog template, loads a script from hashnode.com or sits on a hashnode.dev address. Free hashnode.dev blogs collapse into one domain, so this is the custom-domain side of the platform. I checked every domain, by DNS and by loading the page, and 1,167 remain, 9th of 31 in Blogging & Syndication, with 272 matched to a company.

What we took out

72 domains were dead: 55 didn't answer, 12 were parked or for sale and 5 returned 404. 61 were live sites with no Hashnode on them, and 27 of those carried the CSS class the rule looks for, a class name the Emotion styling library generates on unrelated sites. They were the trap: an entertainment payroll company, a Spanish fashion house, a German fuel distributor and a Canadian credit-score site all sat at the top of the original company list. The last removal was Hashnode's own hashnode.dev.

Sales signal: if you hold an older Hashnode list, the biggest companies on it are the ones most likely to be wrong. Check those first.

What's left, and what's empty

Of the live blogs we classified, 1,059 resolve to 76.76.21.21, the address most Hashnode custom domains resolve to. 132 are empty: Hashnode's "I haven't started writing yet" placeholder is still the only thing on the page. 58 carry the placeholder title "Untitled Publication", and 39 of those have posts. I found no headless sites calling Hashnode's API from their own pages. Among the 1,148 blogs whose post count I could read, the median is 6 posts and 108 have 50 or more.

"One Hashnode blog in nine on a custom domain has no posts at all. Someone bought the domain, connected it and stopped there." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: this is a stable pool of about 1,000 active developer blogs. 120 domains have dropped Hashnode on at least one hostname since 16 March 2026, and only 8 of them still ran it on another. The chart starts in October because that's the month we cleaned.

Who blogs here

Individual developers first. 639 of the 1,166 live blogs sit on a bare domain, which often means a personal site such as a name.dev address, and only 272 domains match a company at all. Among those companies, 81.78% have 1 to 10 employees and 63.84% were founded in the 2020s. The named ones are engineering and product blogs: Fractional AI at engineering.fractional.ai, Klivvr, Hack2skill, KonfHub and Cryptape. Student clubs show up too, ACM-VIT and COPS IIT BHU among them, along with Open Source Community Africa.

Sales signal: a Hashnode company blog usually belongs to the founding engineers. Developer tools, API products and hiring platforms should pitch the CTO or a lead developer, not a marketing team that may not exist yet.

India ahead of the United States

India has 46 matched companies and the United States 41, then the United Kingdom 14, Brazil 13 and Canada 11. Nigeria and Kenya (6 each) make the top ten. IT Services (19.32%), Software Development (18.94%) and Technology, Information and Internet (17.42%) make 55.68% of the base, a narrower, more technical mix than Medium's 43.61% for the same three labels.

Sales signal: for developer-community, devrel and technical hiring offers aimed at India, Nigeria and Kenya, Hashnode domains are a tight list. The companies are small, but almost all of them are technical.

Moves between platforms

Few domains run Hashnode beside another blog host: today 4 also run Substack, 2 run beehiiv and 2 run Ghost. Only Medium has enough shared history to test, and of the 5 domains ever seen with both, 3 still run both, so it fails our switching tests. The departures I could trace went somewhere else: four blog subdomains now redirect to a /blog path on the company's main domain, and we removed them from the count.

"In our data, Hashnode blogs don't leave for Medium or Substack. The ones I could trace moved home, onto the company's main site." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: the competitor for a Hashnode blog is the company's own website stack. Headless CMS and docs-site vendors are better placed than other blog hosts.

The template sets the stack

Cloudflare's CDN runs on 99.23% of the 1,167 domains and Google Analytics on 98.2%, and on our raw count Next.js and Tailwind CSS each run on about 96%. That's Hashnode's blog template, not the writers. Their own choices show lower down: Plausible on 6.08%, Vercel Analytics on 2.49% and Umami on 1.46%, and Mailgun (2.91%) for email.

Sales signal: privacy-first analytics is the clearest owner-chosen signal here. A Hashnode blog with Plausible or Umami suggests a developer who picks tools deliberately, which suits open-source and developer-first products.

What it costs

Hashnode's Pro page, checked on 15 October 2026, prices Pro at $5 a month or $50 a year per publication. It lists the custom domain, GraphQL API access, headless mode, removal of Hashnode branding and up to 10 publications. Starting a blog stays free.

Sales signal: custom domains became a Pro feature in June 2026, but older ones were grandfathered, and the company blogs we checked still show Hashnode's branding. Don't read this list as paying customers; a blog without the "Powered by Hashnode" footer is the one more likely to pay.

Key takeaways

1. 1,167 domains after removing 72 dead and 61 non-Hashnode sites, the second group led by a shared CSS class.

2. 132 live blogs are still empty, and the median blog has 6 posts.

3. A tiny, young, technical base: 81.78% have ten staff or fewer and 63.84% were founded in the 2020s.

4. India (46) leads the United States (41).

5. No switching corridor to any rival blog host.

How to use this list

Filter out empty blogs and check the blog still loads, then sort by country. For the full list of 1,167 Hashnode domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.