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Fastmail vs IFTTT

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Fastmail (Open-source software developed at Fastmail.) and IFTTT (Automations for business and home. 1,000+ of your favorite apps, services and devices. Save time and get more done.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Fastmail and IFTTT sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (40), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Fastmail carries 6,316 GitHub stars across 38 public repos, with 12 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. IFTTT shows 15,307 stars across 75 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Fastmail is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. IFTTT looks better where code quality 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricFastmailIFTTT
Ranking
Overall rank#430#430
Pillars
Overall4040
Code3546
Education6672
Community3331
Reach7856
Momentum442
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars6,31615,307
Forks5711,499
Public repos3875
Active repos (90d)121
External contributors22
Avg polish3549
Avg AI-readiness1442

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