Increase vs Mollie

Increase (Build your bank) and Mollie (Building a payments and banking stack for makers.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a narrow lead over Mollie (rank #122) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 54). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Mollie shows 2,571 stars across 85 public repos, 30 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mollie's footprint is roughly 57.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Mollie 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.