Doist vs Productboard

Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 33). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Doist carries 5,576 GitHub stars across 170 public repos, with 45 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 62.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Productboard 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.