Mattermost vs ReadMe

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and ReadMe (Interactive developer hubs that help users succeed with your APIs 🦉) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a modest lead over ReadMe (rank #257) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 47). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Mattermost carries 49,882 GitHub stars across 262 public repos, with 58 repositories active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors on record. ReadMe shows 1,824 stars across 106 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 27.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. ReadMe 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.