37signals vs Zoom

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Zoom (Power Up Your Apps with Video, Phone, and Chat) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals and Zoom sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (54), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Zoom shows 3,380 stars across 159 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 33.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Zoom looks better where momentum 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.