Increase vs ReadMe

Increase (Build your bank) and ReadMe (Interactive developer hubs that help users succeed with your APIs 🦉) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over ReadMe (rank #257) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 47). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ReadMe is clearly ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ReadMe is ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of ReadMe. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of ReadMe. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), ReadMe is slightly 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. ReadMe shows 1,824 stars across 106 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ReadMe's footprint is roughly 40.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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