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Increase vs SoundCloud

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over SoundCloud (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 36). The gap of 24 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 SoundCloud. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SoundCloud is slightly ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of SoundCloud. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of SoundCloud.

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. SoundCloud shows 8,606 stars across 56 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SoundCloud's footprint is roughly 191.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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

Side-by-side metrics

MetricIncreaseSoundCloud
Ranking
Overall rank#55#536
Pillars
Overall6036
Code5242
Education5961
Community6839
Reach7945
Momentum4343
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars458,606
Forks151,142
Public repos1256
Active repos (90d)1117
External contributors54
Avg polish4846
Avg AI-readiness4732

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