Increase vs Remote

Increase (Build your bank) and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 46). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 18.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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