LinkedIn vs Mollie

LinkedIn and Mollie (Building a payments and banking stack for makers.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over LinkedIn (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 43). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

LinkedIn carries 77,785 GitHub stars across 137 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors on record. Mollie shows 2,571 stars across 85 public repos, 30 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but LinkedIn's footprint is roughly 30.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

LinkedIn is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Mollie 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.