Bold Commerce vs Smartsheet

Bold Commerce (Build with Bold) and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Smartsheet (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over Bold Commerce (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 39). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Bold Commerce is slightly ahead of Smartsheet. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Smartsheet is ahead of Bold Commerce. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Smartsheet is ahead of Bold Commerce. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Bold Commerce is slightly ahead of Smartsheet. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Smartsheet 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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Bold Commerce's footprint is roughly 4.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Bold Commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Smartsheet 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.