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beehiiv
@beehiiv
Rank #510
Score 37
SaaS

Next-gen newsletter platform on a mission to help creators and businesses seamlessly create, monetize, and grow their audiences.

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beehiiv vs Etsy, Inc.

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

beehiiv (Next-gen newsletter platform on a mission to help creators and businesses seamlessly create, monetize, and grow their audiences.) and Etsy, Inc. both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

beehiiv and Etsy, Inc. sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (37), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

beehiiv carries 33 GitHub stars across 13 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Etsy, Inc. shows 21,986 stars across 85 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Etsy, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 666.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

beehiiv is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Etsy, Inc. looks better where code quality 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricbeehiivEtsy, Inc.
Ranking
Overall rank#510#510
Pillars
Overall3737
Code4065
Education7078
Community1418
Reach4613
Momentum1512
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3321,986
Forks63,395
Public repos1385
Active repos (90d)46
External contributors30
Avg polish4074
Avg AI-readiness3030

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