15Five vs Increase

15Five and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over 15Five (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 31). The gap of 29 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Increase is ahead of 15Five. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is ahead of 15Five. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of 15Five. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of 15Five. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase is ahead of 15Five.

15Five carries 141 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 15Five's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

15Five is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Increase looks better where reach is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.