Agorapulse vs Hashnode

Agorapulse and Hashnode (Everything you need to start blogging as a developer!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Agorapulse and Hashnode sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (33), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Agorapulse carries 307 GitHub stars across 80 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Hashnode shows 6,860 stars across 26 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Hashnode's footprint is roughly 22.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Agorapulse is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Hashnode looks better where education 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.