Mollie vs Proton Mail

Mollie (Building a payments and banking stack for makers.) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 41). 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), Mollie is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mollie is clearly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is slightly ahead of Mollie. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of Mollie. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail is ahead of Mollie.

Mollie carries 2,571 GitHub stars across 85 public repos, with 30 repositories active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 6.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mollie is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail looks better where reach 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.