Culture Amp vs Discourse

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Discourse (The 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discourse (rank #190) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 31). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors on record. Discourse shows 55,678 stars across 620 public repos, 90 active in the last 90 days and 44 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discourse's footprint is roughly 46.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Discourse 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.