Culture Amp vs Shopify

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Shopify both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopify (rank #14) holds a meaningful lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (67 vs 31). The gap of 36 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Shopify is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopify is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Shopify is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Shopify is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopify 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. Shopify shows 124,714 stars across 1,211 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopify's footprint is roughly 103.8x 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. Shopify 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.