Increase vs LinkedIn

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over LinkedIn (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 43). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. LinkedIn shows 77,785 stars across 137 public repos, 28 active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but LinkedIn's footprint is roughly 1728.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. LinkedIn looks better where code quality 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.