Excalidraw vs Productboard

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 33). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 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 Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 1519.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw 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.