Mollie vs The Washington Post

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

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 37). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Mollie is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. The Washington Post 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.