Doctolib vs Fastmail

Doctolib (Our mission is to build together the healthcare we all dream of. Learn more about our engineering team on our career page.) and Fastmail (Open-source software developed at Fastmail.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Fastmail (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Doctolib (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 33). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Doctolib carries 776 GitHub stars across 57 public repos, with 10 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 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 8.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doctolib is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Fastmail looks better where reach 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.