BigCommerce vs Culture Amp

BigCommerce and Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 31). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors on record. Culture Amp shows 1,202 stars across 179 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Culture Amp makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.