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How Figma trended on Hacker News

Figma was mentioned 11,890 times on Hacker News between 2013 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2022 with 804 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Figma appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
11,890
Peak month
Sep 2022 (804)
First seen
2013
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Figma

  1. 1.Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B 2,348 points · 1,247 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase 1,145 points · 297 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Penpot: The Open-Source Figma 775 points · 207 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale 568 points · 223 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding 567 points · 160 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Figma files for proposed IPO 515 points · 234 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Figma Slides 486 points · 173 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny 426 points · 436 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster 422 points · 244 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game 417 points · 113 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9 409 points · 224 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Figma Alternatives 406 points · 192 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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