37signals vs Cloudbeds

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Cloudbeds both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #123) holds a meaningful lead over Cloudbeds (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 30). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), 37signals is ahead of Cloudbeds. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Cloudbeds is ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is clearly ahead of Cloudbeds. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is clearly ahead of Cloudbeds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), 37signals is clearly ahead of Cloudbeds.

37signals carries 114,098 GitHub stars across 238 public repos, with 50 repositories active in the last 90 days and 285 external contributors on record. Cloudbeds shows 49 stars across 29 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 2328.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Cloudbeds 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.