Heap vs Increase

Heap (Product Insights) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Heap (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 35). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Heap carries 215 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Heap's footprint is roughly 4.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Heap is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Increase looks better where community 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.