Mollie vs ShopwareLabs

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

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over ShopwareLabs (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 43). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. ShopwareLabs shows 144 stars across 28 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mollie's footprint is roughly 17.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mollie is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. ShopwareLabs 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.