Sites using Giscus

Name: Giscus adoption among indie product launches
Creator: StackScope

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#2 of 22 in Comments Tracked since Apr 2026 Last seen: Sep 2, 2026

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232 sites

214 found by StackScope, 18 via launch platforms

StackScope Wider Web 169
StackScope Discovery (Indie) 45
Hacker News 8
Product Hunt 7
PeerPush 3

View: All sites All launches Launch platforms StackScope Discovery StackScope Wider Web

Last 7 days 0.0% -0.0pp

Most used with Cloudflare DNS, HSTS, Cloudflare

Top product types Developer Tools, Content, AI

Giscus has been detected on 232 launches we've crawled. The 7-day rolling share is 0.0%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: Image & Video API, Agentic DAM, Creative Automation: Complete Visual Media Platform | ImageKit.io, today.

It's most commonly paired with Cloudflare DNS, HSTS, and Cloudflare. By product type, the launches using it are most often Developer Tools (33%), Content (17%), and AI (15%). By domain ending, launches using it are 5.6 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .dev domain.

What kind of products ship with Giscus

113 launches

Developer Tools

32.74%

Content

16.81%

15.04%

Games

8.85%

Productivity

6.19%

Education

5.31%

Health

4.42%

Finance

3.54%

Crypto

1.77%

Design

1.77%

Social

1.77%

Domain endings using Giscus

230 sites

.com 47.83%
.dev 16.52%
.org 6.09%
.me 5.22%
.xyz 4.35%
.site 2.61%
.io 2.17%
.online 2.17%
.space 2.17%
.co 1.74%
.ai 1.30%
.net 1.30%
.app 0.87%

Share of new sites using Giscus

Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before June 2026.

0.0%

last 7 days

-0.0pp vs prior week

232

sites all time

since Apr 2026

Mar 30, 2026 90 days Sep 1, 2026

The shaded part of the chart is measured against a different set of sites. Until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms; from that date we crawl the wider web as well. The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at that line without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.

How StackScope detects technologies

Comments leaders

		Tool	% of launches	% of category
#1	–	Disqus	0.05%	80.62%
#2	–	Giscus Current page	0.01%	14.83%
#3	–	WidgetPack	<0.01%	1.22%
#4	▼2	Cusdis	<0.01%	0.77%
#5	▲2	Utterances	<0.01%	0.64%

Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Comments tool. All 22 in Comments →

Often used with

Tool	Sites
Cloudflare DNS	155
HSTS	142
Cloudflare	135
Tailwind CSS	118
HTTP/3	108

Tools most often detected on the same sites as Giscus.

Recent launches we can show

63 of the 232 sites using Giscus are product launches we list individually. The other 169 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. How StackScope Discovery works

Image & Video API, Agentic DAM, Creative Automation: Complete Visual Media Platform | ImageKit.io Sep 2, 2026 Developer Tools