Increase vs The Washington Post

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 37). The gap of 23 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 The Washington Post. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is ahead of The Washington Post. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase is clearly ahead of The Washington Post.

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but The Washington Post's footprint is roughly 61.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. The Washington Post makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.