Hotjar vs Productboard

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 33). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Hotjar 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.