Head to head
HackerNoon vs Lede Press
HackerNoon leads the BLP Index (68 vs 61). HackerNoon has more raw reach. Lede Press is fairer for founders without a network. HackerNoon scores higher on AI visibility.
| Dimension | HackerNoon | Lede Press |
|---|---|---|
| BLP Index | 68 | 61 |
| Rank | #20 | #43 |
| Type | Communities | Directories |
| Cycle | ongoing | ongoing |
| Listing cost | Free to publish (community rules apply) | Free reciprocal or free nofollow, one each per project |
| Audience | Developers and operators who still read articles | Founders who want a public product story and a link they can inspect |
| Traffic | Search + homepage if the story is actually good | A new editorial desk, not a launch-day audience. Plan for the URL, not a spike. |
| Backlink | Editorial/profile links; quality depends on the piece | Dofollow on the reciprocal free plan and the $29 plan. One link in the article. A separate free plan is not followed |
| Reach | 68 | 34 |
| Intent | 62 | 56 |
| Fairness | 64 | 84 |
| Evergreen | 86 | 72 |
| AI visibility | 70 | 52 |
| Ease | 50 | 86 |
HackerNoon
An article that ranks can outlive every hunt board. A dump of your landing page will not. Editorial, not a submit-a-product form.
HackerNoon is a tech publishing site with a huge crawled archive. Founders who write a specific build log or teardown get a URL that search and assistants reuse. Founders who paste a press release get ignored.
Full HackerNoon guideLede Press
Lede Press publishes a readable product story in that day’s edition. Free reciprocal and the $29 plan put a dofollow link in the article. The publisher states its domain rating is 0.
Lede Press is a daily index of product stories, not a logo directory and not a launch-day leaderboard. Each live page names the product, says who it is for, and contains one product link in a sentence. On the reciprocal free plan and the $29 plan that anchor is dofollow: no nofollow, sponsored, or ugc. The free nofollow plan uses rel=nofollow and does not ask for a site credit.
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