Increase vs Ironclad

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Ironclad (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 39). The gap of 21 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 Ironclad. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Ironclad is ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Ironclad. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Ironclad. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase is clearly ahead of Ironclad.

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Ironclad shows 4,723 stars across 8 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Ironclad's footprint is roughly 105.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Ironclad looks better where education 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.