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How “figma” trended on Hacker News

“Figma” was mentioned 11,788 times on Hacker News between 2013 and 2026, peaking in Aug 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.

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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