Hotjar vs Recruitee

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Recruitee both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Recruitee (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 34). 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), Hotjar is ahead of Recruitee. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is ahead of Recruitee. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Hotjar is ahead of Recruitee. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Recruitee. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recruitee is slightly 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. Recruitee shows 411 stars across 56 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Recruitee's footprint is roughly 7.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Hotjar is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recruitee 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.