Increase vs OpenCart

Increase (Build your bank) and OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over OpenCart (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 41). The gap of 19 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 OpenCart. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), OpenCart is ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of OpenCart. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of OpenCart. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase is ahead of OpenCart.

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but OpenCart's footprint is roughly 181.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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