Box vs Productboard

Box (Box, Inc.) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Box (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 33). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 156.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Productboard 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.