Appcues vs Pinterest

Appcues and Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Appcues (rank #257) holds a narrow lead over Pinterest (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 40). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Appcues carries 984 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Pinterest shows 30,737 stars across 98 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 31.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Appcues is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Pinterest looks better where community 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.