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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 Zscaler, 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 Zscaler, Inc. both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zscaler, Inc. (rank #298) holds a narrow lead over beehiiv (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 37). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zscaler, Inc. is clearly ahead of beehiiv. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), beehiiv is slightly ahead of Zscaler, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zscaler, Inc. is clearly ahead of beehiiv. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), beehiiv is ahead of Zscaler, Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zscaler, Inc. 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. Zscaler, Inc. shows 337 stars across 58 public repos, 33 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zscaler, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 10.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

beehiiv is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Zscaler, 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

MetricbeehiivZscaler, Inc.
Ranking
Overall rank#510#298
Pillars
Overall3745
Code4076
Education7065
Community1439
Reach4637
Momentum1540
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars33337
Forks6199
Public repos1358
Active repos (90d)433
External contributors311
Avg polish4086
Avg AI-readiness3061

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