Fivetran vs Productboard

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

Fivetran (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 33). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Fivetran carries 13,433 GitHub stars across 314 public repos, with 84 repositories active in the last 90 days and 40 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 Fivetran's footprint is roughly 149.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Fivetran 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.