Dialpad vs Fastmail

Dialpad and Fastmail (Open-source software developed at Fastmail.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Dialpad (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Fastmail (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 40). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Dialpad carries 111 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 19 external contributors on record. Fastmail shows 6,316 stars across 38 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Fastmail's footprint is roughly 56.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Dialpad is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Fastmail 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.