Stream vs Hotjar

Stream (Build scalable in-app chat, feeds, and live video with AI moderation capabilities in hours, not weeks.) and Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stream and Hotjar sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (44), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Stream carries 35,664 GitHub stars across 487 public repos, with 84 repositories active in the last 90 days and 44 external contributors on record. Hotjar shows 52 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Stream's footprint is roughly 685.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Stream is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Hotjar looks better where reach 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.