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How Firebase trended on Hacker News

Firebase was mentioned 13,054 times on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026, peaking in May 2020 with 233 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Firebase 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 Firebase

1. 1.Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase 1,145 points · 297 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative 1,120 points · 366 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month 952 points · 497 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Firebase is Joining Google 879 points · 227 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth' 545 points · 339 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Firebase expands to become a unified app platform 530 points · 204 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend 526 points · 137 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping 424 points · 173 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Warning – Google suspended GCP services for 'verification', lost my business 409 points · 132 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for? 391 points · 299 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now? 382 points · 211 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse 350 points · 92 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN

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