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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 Formspark

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 Formspark both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formspark (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over beehiiv (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 37). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Formspark is ahead of beehiiv. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), beehiiv is slightly ahead of Formspark. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formspark is ahead of beehiiv. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), beehiiv is clearly ahead of Formspark. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Formspark is clearly 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. Formspark shows 67 stars across 8 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

beehiiv is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Formspark 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricbeehiivFormspark
Ranking
Overall rank#510#372
Pillars
Overall3742
Code4059
Education7068
Community1431
Reach460
Momentum1548
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3367
Forks693
Public repos138
Active repos (90d)48
External contributors32
Avg polish4053
Avg AI-readiness3035

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