LiveChat vs Pinterest

LiveChat (Join LiveChat Developer Program https://platform.text.com/) and Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

LiveChat (rank #141) holds a modest lead over Pinterest (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (53 vs 40). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

LiveChat carries 755 GitHub stars across 168 public repos, with 24 repositories active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors on record. Pinterest shows 30,737 stars across 98 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 40.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

LiveChat is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Pinterest 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.