Baremetrics vs Fastmail

Baremetrics (Subscription Analytics & Insights. One click and you get hundreds of valuable metrics & business insights from Stripe, Recurly, Braintree and more!) and Fastmail (Open-source software developed at Fastmail.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Fastmail (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Baremetrics (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 37). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Baremetrics carries 908 GitHub stars across 15 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Fastmail shows 6,316 stars across 38 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Fastmail's footprint is roughly 7.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Baremetrics is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Fastmail 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.