Bold Commerce vs Increase

Bold Commerce (Build with Bold) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Bold Commerce (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 39). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Bold Commerce carries 717 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Bold Commerce's footprint is roughly 15.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Bold Commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Increase looks better where community 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.