LinkedIn vs Smartsheet

LinkedIn and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

LinkedIn and Smartsheet sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (43), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but LinkedIn's footprint is roughly 518.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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