Increase vs Shopify

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

Shopify (rank #14) holds a narrow lead over Increase (rank #55) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (67 vs 60). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Shopify is clearly ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopify is clearly ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is slightly ahead of Shopify. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Shopify. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopify is 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. Shopify shows 124,714 stars across 1,211 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopify's footprint is roughly 2771.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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