Disqus

Disqus, Inc.

Type of business	Private
Available in	Multilingual
Founded	October 30, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-10-30) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.A
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Daniel Ha Jason Yan
Key people	Daniel Ha (CEO) Jason Yan (CTO)
Industry	Internet
Employees	61 (2014)
Slogan(s)	"Discover your community." "The web's community of communities."
Website	disqus.com
Alexa rank	593 (March 2016[update])
Registration	Optional
Users	hundreds millions
Launched	October 30, 2007
Current status	Active

Disqus (pronounced discuss) is a worldwide blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities that use a networked platform. The company's platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications, and mobile commenting. It was founded in 2007 by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan as a Y Combinator startup.

In 2011, Disqus ranked #1 in Quantcast's U.S. networks with 144 million monthly unique U.S. visits. Disqus has been featured on many major publications, such as CNN, The Daily Telegraph, and IGN, and about 750,000 blogs and web sites.

Disqus was first developed in the summer of 2007 as a Y Combinator startup headed by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan, who were undergraduates at the University of California, Davis. Disqus was first incorporated and launched on October 30, 2007.

In early 2011, Disqus raised $10 million in funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures.

According to a study by Lijit, Disqus was used by 75% of websites in March 2011 who used a third-party commenting or discussion system.

The Disqus comment widget is written in JavaScript and is powered by a back end primarily written in Python using the Django framework.

Disqus previously operated on the freemium financial model similar to Dropbox and Evernote. The service is free to use for both commenters and web sites.

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