Culture Amp vs Hashnode

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Hashnode (Everything you need to start blogging as a developer!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hashnode (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Culture Amp (rank #696) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 31). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 15 repositories active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors on record. Hashnode shows 6,860 stars across 26 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Hashnode's footprint is roughly 5.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Hashnode looks better where community 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.