Medium “Startup” tag statistics
How busy the Startup tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 10.6 days
Busier than 44% of 73 tracked tags
49% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 75 stories a day, Startup is busier than 44% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (80,787 followers per daily story) is higher than 85% of tags — more readers per story than average.
72% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 49% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 23% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.4 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Startup stories
| Publication | Followers | Startup stories (last 10.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| Startup Stash | 17K | 14 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 668 | 12 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 11 |
| StartupInsider | 8.8K | 9 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 7 |
| Entrepreneurship Handbook | 450K | 7 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 6 |
| Venture | 7.5K | 5 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 5 |
| Bootcamp | 115K | 5 |
Top Startup stories right now
- This 1931 Inequality Can Decide If Your Features Can Be Trusted: Wavelets in Physics and Finance
- What moats exist now that AI can copy anything?
- How to Build a Culture of Saving in a Consumerist Society
- Your Contract Won’t Save You: What Seven Months of Chasing Unpaid Wages Taught Me
- The Question Investors Ask That Entrepreneurs Always Answer Wrong
- HOW I ALMOST WON “GH₵400,000” FROM THE FRENCH EMBASSY
- 11 Boring Tips That Help Me Earn $500 Every Month on the Side
- Your Closed-Source App Is No Longer Safe.
- How to build a startup in 2026
- Why High-Growth Engineering Teams Slow Down as Tooling Sprawls
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Startup tag on Medium?
- About 75 per day (526 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 10.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 500,634 stories in total.
- Is the Startup tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 44% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 80,787 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Startup?
- 49% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 72% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.