HubSpot vs Productboard

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

HubSpot (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 33). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

HubSpot carries 53,481 GitHub stars across 381 public repos, with 35 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 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 HubSpot's footprint is roughly 594.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

HubSpot is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.