Dropbox vs Productboard

Dropbox and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Dropbox (rank #257) holds a modest lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 33). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Dropbox carries 61,045 GitHub stars across 247 public repos, with 29 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 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 Dropbox's footprint is roughly 678.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Dropbox is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Productboard makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.