37signals vs The Washington Post

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

37signals (rank #122) holds a modest lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 37). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 41.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. The Washington Post makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.