CrowdStrike vs Productboard

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

CrowdStrike (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 33). The gap of 27 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

CrowdStrike carries 5,991 GitHub stars across 267 public repos, with 74 repositories active in the last 90 days and 23 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 CrowdStrike's footprint is roughly 66.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

CrowdStrike is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Productboard 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.