LinkedIn vs Starling Bank

LinkedIn and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

LinkedIn (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 33). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), LinkedIn is ahead of Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Starling Bank is slightly ahead of LinkedIn. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), LinkedIn is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is slightly ahead of LinkedIn. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Starling Bank is 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 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 LinkedIn's footprint is roughly 398.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

LinkedIn is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where momentum 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.