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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 Mattermost

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 Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #39) holds a meaningful lead over beehiiv (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 37). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Mattermost is clearly ahead of beehiiv. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), beehiiv is slightly ahead of Mattermost. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is clearly ahead of beehiiv. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of beehiiv. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost 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. Mattermost shows 49,882 stars across 262 public repos, 58 active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 1511.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

beehiiv is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Mattermost 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

MetricbeehiivMattermost
Ranking
Overall rank#510#39
Pillars
Overall3762
Code4078
Education7066
Community1447
Reach4679
Momentum1577
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3349,882
Forks617,658
Public repos13262
Active repos (90d)458
External contributors3105
Avg polish4088
Avg AI-readiness3046

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