Linear vs Teamtailor

Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) and Teamtailor (The all-in-one recruitment and marketing platform. Hiring doesn't get any easier than this. Trusted by over over 125,000 recruiters) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Linear (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Teamtailor (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 30). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Linear carries 1,971 GitHub stars across 22 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Teamtailor shows 29 stars across 77 public repos, 10 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Linear's footprint is roughly 68.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Linear is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Teamtailor 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.