Box vs Nulab Inc

Box (Box, Inc.) and Nulab Inc (We are a small company with a big heart and all of our products are handcrafted with love.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Box (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Nulab Inc (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 34). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Box carries 14,074 GitHub stars across 84 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 33 external contributors on record. Nulab Inc shows 1,860 stars across 87 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 12 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 7.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Nulab Inc looks better where education 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.