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Mattermost vs Shopify

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

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Shopify both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopify (rank #14) holds a narrow lead over Mattermost (rank #38) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (67 vs 62). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopify is ahead of Mattermost. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Shopify is ahead of Mattermost. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Shopify. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Shopify.

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. Shopify shows 124,714 stars across 1,211 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Shopify looks better where community 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

MetricMattermostShopify
Ranking
Overall rank#38#14
Pillars
Overall6267
Code7878
Education6681
Community4763
Reach7948
Momentum7752
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars49,882124,714
Forks17,65819,143
Public repos2621,211
Active repos (90d)5875
External contributors10587
Avg polish8879
Avg AI-readiness4646

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