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beehiiv
@beehiiv
Rank #510
Score 37
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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 ForestAdmin

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 ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over beehiiv (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 37). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

beehiiv carries 33 GitHub stars across 13 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 103.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

beehiiv is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. ForestAdmin 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

MetricbeehiivForestAdmin
Ranking
Overall rank#510#165
Pillars
Overall3751
Code4066
Education7074
Community1428
Reach4635
Momentum1527
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars333,415
Forks6360
Public repos1387
Active repos (90d)414
External contributors39
Avg polish4064
Avg AI-readiness3033

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