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LinkedIn vs Teamwork.com

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

LinkedIn and Teamwork.com (World-class products that work together to streamline your business. We're hiring!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Teamwork.com (rank #237) holds a narrow lead over LinkedIn (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 43). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Teamwork.com shows 2,108 stars across 123 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but LinkedIn's footprint is roughly 36.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

LinkedIn is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Teamwork.com 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricLinkedInTeamwork.com
Ranking
Overall rank#338#237
Pillars
Overall4348
Code6358
Education5459
Community4937
Reach6147
Momentum3727
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars77,7852,108
Forks12,231384
Public repos137123
Active repos (90d)2814
External contributors5213
Avg polish6462
Avg AI-readiness4338

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