Adobe, Inc. vs Productboard

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 33). The gap of 28 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 701.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Productboard makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.