Increase vs Intercom

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a narrow lead over Intercom (rank #82) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 57). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Intercom shows 3,761 stars across 190 public repos, 56 active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Intercom's footprint is roughly 83.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Intercom 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.