37signals vs Rippling

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Rippling (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 39). The gap of 15 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 Rippling. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Rippling is slightly ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is clearly ahead of Rippling. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Rippling is slightly ahead of 37signals. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), 37signals is clearly ahead of Rippling.

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. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 729.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Rippling 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.