37signals vs ShipBob

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and ShipBob (Need to ship? ShipBob-it! You save save time and money.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over ShipBob (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 31). The gap of 23 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 ShipBob. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ShipBob is ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is clearly ahead of ShipBob. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is clearly ahead of ShipBob. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), 37signals is clearly ahead of ShipBob.

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. ShipBob shows 0 stars across 2 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. ShipBob 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.