37signals vs Teamwork.com

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Teamwork.com (World-class products that work together to streamline your business. We're hiring!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over Teamwork.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 education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Teamwork.com is slightly ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is ahead of Teamwork.com. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is ahead of Teamwork.com. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), 37signals is ahead of Teamwork.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. Teamwork.com shows 2,108 stars across 123 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 54.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Teamwork.com 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.