We are back with another
This week, we spotlight Kilo, a San Francisco-based startup building the all-in-one agentic engineering platform for software developers by combining a coding agent, code reviewer, app builder, and AI orchestration layer in a single open-source tool. Backed by $8 million in seed funding, Kilo has grown to 2.3M+ developers, reached #1 on OpenRouter, and processed over 25 trillion tokens to date, making it the most popular open-source AI coding platform in the world.
Fun Fact: The Kilo Blog 🎆
Kilo doesn't just build in public, they write in public too (Talking about the HackerNoon spirit 💚)! The team runs an active blog at blog.kilo.ai, using it to share product updates, funding announcements, and the thinking behind their decisions directly with their developer community. For a 14-person team moving at the speed they do, it's a remarkable dedication to document the journey as it happens, and to share their crafts with whoever is interested!
It also says something about how Kilo thinks about trust. In a market crowded with AI coding tools, a dedicated blog is a quiet but powerful signal; it tells developers that the people building the product are willing to be found, questioned, and held accountable. That kind of transparency is the start of an unmatched loyalty-building initiative.
Kilo🤝HackerNoon Business Blogging
Kilo has taken their commitment to writing in public one step further by partnering with HackerNoon through the
HackerNoon's Business Blogging program gives the business the screen space of the author bio, links to business social media accounts, and a prominent call to action linking to anywhere on the interwebs of the sponsor's choosing.
Check out Kilo’s HackerNoon profile and read their amazing articles here:
https://hackernoon.com/u/kilocode?embedable=true
That's all this week, folks!
Stay Creative, Stay Iconic.
The HackerNoon Team