37signals vs monday.com

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and monday.com (Developer resources and open-source software projects made available by monday.com) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over monday.com (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 48). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

37signals carries 113,857 GitHub stars across 236 public repos, with 48 repositories active in the last 90 days and 298 external contributors on record. monday.com shows 1,854 stars across 46 public repos, 16 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 61.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. monday.com looks better where code quality 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.